Word: controllable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Joel F. Henning '61, president of the Harvard Dramatic Club, opened the question of University control of productions in the Loeb Theatre. He cautioned that the necessary and desirable pooling of technical personnel, costumes, and stage scenery, together with the loss of sole responsibility for selecting plays might tend to render College-wide theatrical groups superfluous...
Disturbed by the questions of several members of the audience as to control policies and financial advantages of the Loeb, MacLeish mentioned lightly that he "almost detected an undertone that we should never have built the theatre...
...there is one thing that even the most responsible students can not be trusted to do--control themselves in the presence of women during the evening. The Administration feels that when boys and girls get together, unchaperoned, in a dark, moonlit room, then wild passions and jungle instincts will prevail. Thus, although students may host women in their rooms from 4-7 p.m. every weekday, nights are another thing entirely. Even on Friday, women must be on their way by 8 p.m., which gives a normal person hardly enough time to digest dinner...
...NUCLEAR REACTOR that may make atomic power competitive with conventionally generated electricity will be built by Martin Co. under an $838,163 AEC contract. Reactor system uses pea-sized pellets of atomic fuel, eliminates the need for complex control rods used in present reactors, makes it easier to recover valuable fissionable material from the reactor...
Chevalier's most tantalizing implication is that Bloch, blind as Oedipus in his pride, believes that only he can control the use and abuse of the superbomb. In this light, Mark Ampter is a human sacrifice to Bloch's God complex. This^ view may be colored by Chevalier's personal resentment (although he claims that "this book was written not with hatred but with love," the novel's underlying tone suggests an ex-worshipper stomping on a fallen idol). But strangely enough, the Atomic Energy Commission came to a very similar conclusion about Oppenheimer...