Archive: Arts & Entertainment

Smart Talk SMART TALK
By Dr. Viva Palaver

WORKING MOTHER: Dr. Shirley Glibb talked about the following incident in a session. As staff psychologist at the Institute for the Linguistically Impaired, I thought Dr. Glibb’s thoughts would be instructive, and I got her permission to share them.

Early this week, she came to me very angry. I was surprised that something in her church had upset her so. Usually, a rousing service at the Safe Haven Chapel of the Perfect Ideal lifted and energized her all week, in spite of her church’s name.

But this time, Elder Cyle Crisco had preached against working mothers. And he’d had the nerve to use the chapter in Proverbs about the perfect wife as his text. In that chapter, the wife achieves perfection thanks to nonstop labor, and Elder Crisco saw no irony.

“Don’t all mothers work?” Dr. Glibb fumed in my office. “They work their buns off even if they don’t have paying jobs! How repressive!”

This Sunday, Dr. Glibb plans to try Our Lady of Loving Disapproval.

Good luck, Shirl.


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Smart Talk SMART TALK
By Laconia Crisp, N.P.

GIVEAWAY: Mrs. Shirley Markem Lowe is angry. Readers of this column point to usage misdemeanors such as, “I have a lot of clothes to giveaway,” and, “Set up for the bazaar will start at 9:00,” as evidence of the decline of public education.

Well, that’s never written by her students, by golly. Her seniors at D.B. Wesson High School learn the logic of compounding.

They know that a freebie is a giveaway, but old clothes are to give away. You even say them differently, first as a single word, then as two. We’ll set up for the bazaar, and we might call the event the setup.

The car might break down, and we’d call it a breakdown. Mrs. Lowe’s students might show off, and she’d call them showoffs.

She wisely avoids forming a rule from this, because English is such a minefield. It may look as if the compound, or single word, is the noun (thing), and the two-word form is the verb (action), but Mrs. Lowe advises simply using one’s ear and common sense.

After all, there’s an important difference between a black bird, which could be a duck, and a blackbird. You can see water fall, but that’s not necessarily a waterfall. And neither item in these pairs is a verb.

Shirley Markem Lowe gives extra credit for more examples, and her students develop sharp ears and become nuisances to their careless peers.

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April 17, 2007 (ITHACA, NY) - The Syracuse New Times was feeling “That Old Black Magic” when they announced this year’s Syracuse Area Live Theatre (SALT) Award Nominations. The 2006 Hangar Theatre production of Sammy & Me received three nominations—two for the production and one for co-author and star, Eric Jordan Young.

Sammy & Me was honored with SALT Awards Summer Theatre nominations for Production of the Season, Best Original New Production, and Actor of the Season, for Jordan Young’s tour de force performance, where he took on over 30 characters, including Sammy Davis, Jr.

Smart Talk SMART TALK
By Garrel S. Utter, N.P.

WIDE WIDTH: In downtown Underbelly, Nurse Saber S. Poder took a long lunch hour to shop for construction boots for her husband. She was shocked to see that Dicky’s, the best bootmaker in Texas, advertised each pair with a tag trumpeting WIDE WIDTH.

Nurse Poder returned to the Institute for the Linguistically Impaired asking if she’d been away for a lengthy length of time.

After work, in the Fowler Lounge, she quipped that Dr. Will S. Sert’s theories had deep depth.

Dr. Sert instantly replied that he hoped his theories gave her high heights of inspiration.

We often kid each other that way to let off steam, especially after a couple of flagons or schooners.

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ITHACA, NY - On a scorching July day in 1925, a trial began in Dayton, Tennessee, pitting two intellectual giants of the time. At issue was a state law banning the teaching of evolution and a Dayton teacher's knowing infringement of that law. For 12 days the famed Scopes "Monkey Trial" captured the nation's attention as the themes of religious tolerance, belief and freedom of thought were debated. Today, over 80 years later, the same issues of church vs. state and evolution vs. creationism still resonate and theatergoers still flock to see Inherit the Wind on America's stages. Inspired by the events of the trial and written as a social commentary on McCarthyism by Jerome Lawerence and Robert E. Lee, Inherit the Wind will be presented on the Cornell Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts stage April 26-May 5.

"Inherit the Wind is a complex dramatic investigation of the freedoms of thought and belief," said Director Beth Milles, Assistant Professor of Acting/Directing. "The prescience of the piece is striking. It resonates above and beyond time and place and applies to each and every one of us today. The play zeroes in on the expression of ideas and the realm of community responsibility. None of the issues are resolved simply and that is the power of the play."

Smart Talk SMART TALK
By Dr. Les Terse

WHOLE HOST: Fatuous politicians like to refer to a whole host of causes for that cost overrun. Underbelly, Texas, mayor Luke Johnson claimed that a whole host of reasons led to his brother Clayotn being hired as town constable.

This begs a question: How many would make half a host?

My dad used to do some ranching nearby, outside of Overback. He loved to ask me how much hay you’d have in half a stack. And what might be the proper length of a whole piece of string.

That’s probably why I’m in practice today at the Institute for the Linguistically Impaired, helping patients remember to avoid redundancy and say host.

Incidentally, the best book on American politics is Survival of the Specious, by our own Dr. Shirley Glibb.


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April 02, 2006 (ITHACA, NY)—This summer, kids from around the country will have a chance to create theater productions and learn from nationally recognized actors, designers, playwrights, and directors at the Hangar Theatre! From July 16th to August 25th, the Hangar’s popular Next Generation School of Theatre will offer three programs designed for kids and young adults from grades 3 through 12.