Word: acte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Peter K. Gunness '57, director of the Financial Aid Office, said yesterday that Federal funds given to Harvard as National Defense Education Act loans, Educational Opportunity grants, and the work-study payments are likeely to be cut by about $200,000 from this year's total of $1,6 million...
...said that after a particularly bad run-through of the second act--one that was dead, joyless, dull. Cooper then said, as his cast sat on the floor around him, "Now I want you to get up and walk around." They did. A minute or so later, he said, "Now start to make noises at each other. Make a noise and make it at someone." What happened was very eerie to watch; for the actors began to grunt at each other, and then, as though high on the action around them to physically contact each other, bumping, then shoving...
After about a minute of this, two of the actresses, playing a noblewoman and her beautiful servant, moved away from the rest of the people toward the corner of the room from which they come on stage to open the second act. As they moved, they talked to each other, half as their characters, half as themselves, improvising their lines. Then, as they stood arguing, Cooper said, "All right, come on. Come on." And, as the rest of the cast was silent, the two girls cut from their improvised dialogue to the lines which open the second act. This time...
...There are times when both the providers of the care and the consumer may act in a shortsighted or narrow interest," Pollack says in explaining the "general interest" directors. "We hope that by bringing in this third element, we will be able to aim the program towards some of the larger social goals and problems...
...character is dead--but our understanding of the milieu (characters and setting) has been amazing enlarged. The end of Toni repeats the first shot and it is frightening. Filled with an incredibly strong feeling of the world of film--a feeling almost of aesthetic passion--we are unable to act. This closed world, Renoir's creation, is fixed...