Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wyse expressed doubts about the financial feasibility of establishing a liaison "Unfortunately, the Faculty is reticent to commit any more theory to the ART then they already have," he said...
...books would be selected from a list of "Homer, one or two of the Greek tragedies, Plato, the Bible, Virgil, Dante, Shakespeare, Milton, Tolstoy." Reading these authors and learning the "core" of knowledge that was considered the foundation of liberal arts education did not mean that a student would commit to memory a small collection of finely crafted theories that explained away the world. Knowing a "core" of knowledge meant knowing a core of issues and enduring questions that have persistently confronted men since Biblical times and the insights and understanding the great authors have provided which have structured Western...
...speaking, it is only at sports events that violence is done Customers who wouldn't dream of jeering at Barbra Streisand or Luciano Pavarottie seem to feel that a ticket to the grandstand or the bleachers is a license to the grandstand or the bleachers is a license to commit mayhem on the entertainers...
...take the Yale Rep with him. To Yale's surprise, he more or less did; though another company now performs in Yale's name, Brustein's rechristened American Repertory Theater is in its fourth season at Harvard. This spring the university will consider whether to commit its patronage past 1984 and whether to endorse Bru stein's plan for conservatory training in drama. Brustein says he cannot continue without increased funds from Harvard...
...Giovanni, a young man who is suspected of having convinced a former mistress to jump out of a window, the legal paraphernalia inevitably gives way to philosophical probing. "Why was I born?". "What is the meaning of life?" Obsessed with such questions, Mauro begins to ponder convincing Marta to commit suicide. The acquaintance with the young man finishes off Mauro's already rickety defenses against the incursions of madness: If life makes no sense in itself, what can distinctions of sanity or public virtue matter...