Word: approaches
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Many of Fisher's Harvard colleagues believe his approach to conflicts is a useful and innovative one. Ernest R. May, professor of History, who concentrates on foreign affairs, says Fisher is "very able, very stimulating, very provocative. He has a very practical approach." Thomas C. Schelling, Littauer Professor of Political Economy and an inventor of the highly-influential "game theory," says Fisher "has a lot of good ideas and a lot of bad ideas, but many people don't get any ideas. He's an optimist and he may be off in the clouds, but people...
...year collaboration with avant-garde composer John Cage has been of major importance. Cage's concern with reevaluating the whole idea of music, with both reducing its definition to an almost untenable minimum and expanding its material to an almost unlimited scope, is parallelled in Cunningham's approach to dance...
Particularly with regard to music, dance's age-old impetus, such an approach is startling: Cunningham's dance is set not "to" music, but "against" it. The two elements occupy the same time-period and physical space, but neither acts in response to the other. The musical background of a particular dance is not always the same, and even when it is, it functions merely as a "climate of performance," in Clive Barnes's words. As Cunningham has remarked, "the result is that the dance is free to act as it chooses, as is the music. The music doesn...
...field in which the dancers relate not to fixed points...but to one another," and most Cunningham dances can be viewed to almost equal advantage from any angle. There is no hierarchy of dancers, either: they interact, in critic McDonagh's phrase, with "molecular individuality." As with Cunningham's approach to decor and music, this too is essentially a respect for the integrity of individual elements rather than a surrender to anarchy. Carolyn Brown, long an outstanding Cunningham dancer, points out that "the dancers are treated more as puzzles than works of art: the pieces are space and time, shape...
While philosophically defensible on the grounds of academic freedom, the Kennedy School's selection of an advocate of a conservative, big-business approach to public policy is disappointing. America does not need more public servants who espouse such positions. One might hope that in the future the Kennedy School will be inspired to seek speakers who are not merely defenders of the status quo, or worse, advocates of a return to a mythical, laissez-faire past, but men and women who can present new and stimulating ideas as to how government may work creatively to promote a more humane, economically...