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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conflict between these two groups is primarily at the symbolic level. For traditionalists, any use of the word "growth" or "adjustment" is enough to induce rage, no matter what the context or meaning. Conversely, for many progressives the suggestion that knowledge is best organized into "subjects," or that the mind can profit from "discipline," raises such a repellent image of rote learning and tedious pedantry that they will hear no more of the matter...
What might be in order is a House which asserts Harvard's debt to the great traditions of European building--architectural styles which must always be viewed in context of a general Zeitgeistlicheweltanschauung. One thinks immediately of the ultimate synthesis, a Greek temple with flying buttress. Such a structure would squat gracefully across Boylston Street and express the ever-existant tension between the real and the ideal...
...this distinction is not a consistent one, or if it is, the author fails to maintain it as such. Far more often the decisions of 1933 and 1934 appear in the context of the welter of intriguing personalities who fought for them. Schlesinger is at his best in recreating these personalities; he is not at his best in presenting the economic thoughts which may have driven them...
...Queen Mab speech, an abdicating Richard II, a sleepless Henry IV, a dying Lear and John of Gaunt. A few may wonder why Gielgud includes numerous sonnets and not a single lyric, only to decide that he prefers his Shakespeare, even when most poetic, in a personalized context...
Hays and Coffin summed up: "Each problem exists in the context of an intense Canadian desire for recognition of its separate national identity. An apparent attitude of bland indifference by the U.S. has been a source of greater irritation than the economic policies themselves...