Word: betweens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While directing at Yale in 1967, Miller noticed ? great difference between actors at Yale and actors at British schools. "Yale's actors were not nearly as good as those at Oxford and Cambridge," he recalled. "Over here, you take acting much more seriously and in a strange contra-dictory way...
And between 1910 and 1970 the dynamics of reading and writing have changed. Few people read habitually now-movies and T.V. provide a far more effortless escape to fill lonely nights. Reading literature is a form of active self-exploration. Unlike the movies, books demand immense concentration and visual inventiveness...
But somehow, in between terrifying epiphanies about the death of civilization and the end of art, a few brave souls have had the nerve to put together another issue of the Advocate. That would be charming, almost quaint, if this latest effort were not so good. Romantic heroes they remain...
A fascinating interview with I.A. Richards opens the issue, and with anecdotes of a pristine Cambridge and Mao's China he poses the tension between nostalgic tradition and contemporary urgency that finds its way into most of the magazine. His sheer good sense and faith in man is refreshing in...
The insistent and honest cultivation of a subversive consciousness is perhaps the only design for escape left us. As John Lewis wrote on his tribute to Aiken, "Perception, erroneous though it may be, is still an act which reaches objects beyond itself." The reaching beyond is a subtle dialectic between...