Word: actioneers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...play on the tradition basis would truly bury Ibsen for good" Miller has made an adaptation of Enemy of the People that strips away much of the pedanty and Victorianism of the play. Yet the injection of the Miller touch and the attempt to up-date the speech and action undercuts some of the play's force and argumentative strength...
Supporters of a referendum claimed that last year's action had set a precedent and that "we owe the students a referendum." Eugene H. Zagat '61 also stressed the need for arousing student interest by means of a College-wide vote...
...stumbling blocks that wrecked the IATA conference last week were 1) when to cut, and 2) by how much. Under IATA rules every action requires unanimous consent of the lines involved, and each one, big or little, has an equal vote. The result was near-paralysis. As one delegate said: "It was not just a case of the jets v. the jetless. The voting was all over the lot by chaps with pistons, chaps with turboprops and chaps with both, not to speak of some who have jets on order and are now beginning to wonder how they are going...
Other recommendations call on the University to take "all possible steps" including court action--to gain repeal of the oaths, and also to provide substitute funds "to students presently receiving Federal aid here who might suffer from its withdrawal...
...theatrical devices to intensify the atmosphere. "The play is memory," says Tom Wingfield, who functions as narrator. "Being a memory play, it is dimly lighted, it is sentimental, it is not realistic. In memory everything seems to happen to music."--and the music threads in and out of the action with a perfectly calibrated degree of obtrusiveness...