Word: creation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cultures and, as Jews, haunted by the idea of being exiled from the homeland, or belonging to a pariah class. Via intellectual cosmopolitanism, and either political left-liberalism or socialism, they compensated by making the world their home. But in the past 50 years, the holocaust and the subsequent creation of the Israeli state played on the consciences of many American Jews and seduced them into political parochialism...
Former Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz, head of a panel of experts that has spent two years studying the problem, concluded this fall that U.S. education has been "off stride for ten years." Reflecting the general concern, Jimmy Carter during his campaign called for creation of a separate, Cabinetlevel Department of Education to help remedy the situation; one of his aides S declares, "We're going to get that started." But whatever Washington does, issues of public education are largely a matter of state and local responsibility...
...treat residency as a hiring requirement anyway, and the liberals consider the law a tactic for promoting the patronage system that allows friends of committee members to get jobs in the school system no matter what their qualifications. To cut down on possible patronage, Convention members pushed for the creation of the position of personnel director to standardize hiring practices...
Andy Borowitz '80, author-director of Gars and Goyles, is treading near the edge of the Inferno with his creation. A loose musical adaptation of Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame, the fall production of the Radcliffe Grant-in-Aid Society suffers the fate of many similar musicals that break from the gate with fast scores, only to get bogged down in the backstretch with a muddy script. Borowitz's music and lyrics are undoubtedly first-rate, but his book is simply ridden with too many stale jokes to carry the action. As the playwright's first effort...
Concentrating on Romantic and contemporary concerts. Ariel Chamber Ensemble begins its season with program of Brahms, Ravel, Stravinsky and Milhaud Ariel emphasizes "dramatic works" and the relationship between music and theater. The chamber group will play Ravel's "Trois Poemes de Stephane Mallarme," Milhaud's "La Creation du Monde," and Brahms' Quintet Op. 111. There will also be two works by Stravinsky--"Fanfare" and "Trois Poesies de la Lyrique Japonaise." The performers are professional musicians interested in, according to its pamphlet, the "growth of a new and innovative form, music/theater." Ariel will be in Sanders Theatre on Friday night. Tickets...