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...Nightmare. Langham is performing an act of reviving violence. He is doing to the polite 19th century conventions of Greek tragedy what directors like Peter Brook have done to the polite 19th century conventions of Shakespeare. Pseudo-traditional versions of Oedipus are staged as refined pageants. Directors assign masks, write long program notes about catharsis, and advise their puzzled Oedipuses to express hubris, which generally leaves them looking like damaged Roman coins. Langham has cut through the decorum of Greek revival to present Oedipus as a nightmare by Jung...
...want to find out how they assign freshmen to their colleges--similar to Harvard Houses--and how they handle the problem of the male-female ratio," Harnett said...
...downs since its founding in the early sixties. Last year's attempt to assign volunteers to offer special activities in schools throughout the Boston system failed miserably. Completely uncooperative officials, a lack of communication among committee members, and generally lax volunteer commitment precipitated BEP's dermis. Fortunately, its leadership re-formed the group this year as the Cambridge Education Program (CEP), tying volunteers PBH Membership Figures listed give fetal PBM membership including New Harvard and Radcliffe undergraduates. Members in parentheses indicate the percentage of PBH membership in each of the categories. YEAR FRESH SOPH JRS SRS OTHER...
...label people, and only secondarily as socialization agencies, whose job is to change people." The reason, he says, is that schools cannot control the factors that most determine test scores: heredity and home environment. Jencks believes that genes play a significant role in determining IQ, though he does not assign to them the overwhelming importance found by Berkeley Psychologist Arthur Jensen. Just how do genes influence the IQ? Only partly by predetermining the ability to learn, says Jencks. Genes also affect the environment in which a child develops, a factor ignored by traditional methods of estimating genetic influences...
...that as many as half of such offenders are indigents, though not all of them will require lawyers. The right to counsel can be waived, or, as Douglas observed, a judge can decide before the trial that he will not impose a prison sentence, thus avoiding the need to assign a lawyer. In addition, a non-indigent who chooses not to pay for a lawyer need not be assigned...