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David S. Finkelhor '69, one of the organizers of the proposed course, said yesterday that a tentative plan has been submitted to the Department of Social Relations for approval. The department has asked for clarification on issues of grading, qualification of teaching fellows, and radical bias, as it did in the case of Soc Rel 148, he said...
MISS HAHN introduced music in her second performance, and once again showed her bias against traditional form, toward freer--perhaps more hazardous--interpretations of dance. The Company concentrated on pieces in which the relationship of sound to movement was abstract. Miss Hahn used sound to create a very general field in which the dance took place; or, at times, she refused to define the relationship. Movement and music followed their own tracks and the connection was left to each member of the audience. Sound and movement sometimes had completely separate existences coming together only at crucial moments...
...subject matter--what he truly seeks is fairness. Mailer's approach, with a couple of exceptions, in no way is intended to describe impartially the plight of human beings on the wrong (police) side of the barriers. Newspaper reporters do seek this sort of impartiality, or lack of bias--or, if you like, omniscience...
...because of his contention that an audience should wake up and think, and that drama should be an instrument of social change. Brook accepts too uncritically the notion that Brecht wanted an audience to think for itself: no playwright was a more sedulous brainwasher. Despite his fierce ideological bias, however, there is no convincing proof that Brecht-or any other playwright-ever altered the course of a society. Reflecting the nature of a society is another question; all good drama does that...
...month, in a direct attack on color barriers in trade unions, a U.S. district court found that the local had violated not only the 1964 Civil Rights Act but also a 102-year-old post-Civil War statute that was only recently invoked by the Supreme Court to bar bias in housing. Following up his 86-page decision, Judge Timothy S. Hogan: 1) ordered Dobbins' admission to the union, 2) temporarily suspended union hiring-hall practices, by which jobs are dispensed "at the particular whim of the business agent," and 3) insisted on a new system of hiring based...