Word: approaching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Soon after arriving at Yale, Brustein began--perhaps out of necessity--to formulate a new approach to reproducing classics in the theater. In his article "No More Masterpieces" (1967), Brustein argues that the classical canon (which includes Shakespeare and modern playwrights such as Ibsen, Chekhov, and Strindberg) should continue to serve as staple for repertory theaters, but that there should be "no more piety, no more reverence, no more sanctimoniousness," and no more dull, "definitive" productions: each new production of a classical play should be regarded "less as a total re-creation of that work than as a directorial essay...
Brustein's books, The Theatre of Revolt (1964), Seasons of Discontent (1965), The Third Theatre (1969), and Culture Watch (1975), are not only great reading--written in a direct, lively style that combines the best features of journalism and literary scholarship--they provide an approach to both modern drama and the current American theatrical scene. His writings, diverse as they are, display a common vision: the theater is not, and never has been isolated from day-to-day human existence and the problems of any given society--it is created out of those problems and fed by the artist...
Even so, as Bailey looked back over the years, she shook her head. Yes, Brustein's professional approach might work in an undergraduate setting, given the right conditions. Even at Yale, the past year has been more or less complacent. "But when you think of how long it took, how many hours we spent arguing. That's what Harvard will have to face...
...Plaza Hotel. Superman is coming, as everybody knows. I have little faith in director Richard Donner after The Omen, but it'll be good to have Brando back on the screen even if he's a bit blubbery and only on for a few minutes. I hear the approach is a little campy in places, and I'm not too eager to see Gene Hackman again after his Polish general (read with a hard 'g') in A Bridge Too Far. Margot Kidder looks like a cute Lois Lane, and they say Christopher Reeve really flies well, and the producers have...
Kaplan stresses his permanency and non-enfranchisement policy in order to separate himself from fly-by-night operators. A full-time research staff in his national headquarters in New York continually revamps course material. Kaplan pioneered the learning-through-tapes method. His approach, then, is three pronged--students attend class, receive 50 hours of homework, and have access to over 60 hours of tapes and practice tests on a daily basis...