Word: bernard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bernard Bailyn, professor of History, as won the Faculty Prize of the Harvard University Press for the first volume of is Pamphlets of the American Revolution...
CAESAR & CLEOPATRA (Caedmon) is more than a little like Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion. For the tyrannical pedant of phonetics, Henry Higgins, Shaw substitutes the philosopher-king of Rome. In place of the forlorn flower girl who must be passed off as a lady, the play offers an adolescent Egyptian minx who must be tutored in regality. The playwright's purposes are somewhat thwarted by this recording. Max Adrian is little better than a fashionably tailored verbal dandy, and an overagitated Claire Bloom is more often short of breath than breathless...
Tartuffe, directed by George Hamlin, associate director of the Loeb, will alternate in an unprecedented repertory arrangement with George Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara, directed by Michael Ehrhardt '66. The shows will be produced on alternate nights, Dec. 2-11; the run will involve two Saturday matinees...
Some major changes: > Courses are becoming less specialized, more intellectual and analytical. "Our function," says Dean Bernard F. Landuyt of Detroit University's college of commerce, "is to train business leaders, not clerks." When Robert R. Dockson became dean of the University of Southern California's school of business administration five years ago, he revamped its content from top to bottom, adding to the faculty experts in sociology, philosophy, political science and physics. Says he: "I cut out all the Mickey Mouse courses that were purely descriptive...
...KIMONO MIND by Bernard Rudofsky. 283 pages. Doubleday. $5.95. "What shall we make of the Japanese-at once geniuses and copycats, aesthetes and vulgarians," whose "politeness is as exquisite as their rudeness, their wisdom often indistinguishable from stupidity?" Author Rudofsky, an architect, designer and museum director, spent two years searching for an answer to his own question. He did not quite find one, and his route took him past many of the familiar inscrutabilities of an island where the kimono is dismembered before laundering, where the men wear long underwear in summer and in winter peel off their overcoats...