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...student affairs. Some campuses have even created campus ''ombudsmen" to carry student grievances to top administrators, The University of Chicago has appointed a student to such a post, gives him an office with a fireplace, plus a small budget and a full-time secretary. The Stony Brook campus of the State University of New York intends to dismiss classes for three days this month so that students and faculty can talk out the school's pains and aims...
...turn of the century and since then has turned out 90 volumes that attacked Chicago meat packers, Wall Street bankers, capitalist publishers, and just about everybody else in the Establishment. But last week, "the king of the muckrakers" had kind words for everyone around him. At the Bound Brook, N.J., nursing home where he lives, a mellow Upton Sinclair beamed as he leaned over in his chair and blew out the candles on his 90th birthday cake...
...their 50s and 60s who wore 1940-vintage clothes and preferred suspenders to belts. The Bulgarian representative, exiled in Paris for the past three decades, had the same reply to virtually every motion. "Bulgarie I'accepte!" he roared in what sounded almost like French. "We can no longer brook Vatican pacifism, no longer kiss the foot of the Pope. Neither can we submit to the imperialism of Soviet Russia...
Agile Intellect. On both shores of the Atlantic, new ideas seem to have deserted playwrights to lodge with directors. Of these, Peter Brook, a man of agile intellect and strong disciplinary instincts, is incomparably the most influential. He may be more of a comet than a planet, but currently light follows wherever he streaks. His Marat/ Sade, with its writhing choreographic movement and untrammeled vocabulary of sound, was the first step toward a revolution in drama: making the theater a director's medium...
According to the theater's constitution, power has been divided more or less equally among playwright, actor and director. Brook has altered that drastically. He has lowered the visibility of the actor, by making him much more of a group figure, an inter-actor-the difference, as it were, between Greek sculpture and Egyptian bas-relief. Similarly, the playwright in Brook's hands has been reduced to a sort of coauthor. Brook supplies, or imposes, a coeval text of ritualistic sounds and gestures that often competes with the playwright's lines. At its worst, this method generates...