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Make It Exciting. Principal Brown, 43, went on to revamp everything else at Melbourne. Most notably, he did away with ranking students from freshman to senior. Whatever their ages, youngsters pursue any course they can handle. Scores on aptitude and IQ tests are largely ignored. "Achievement alone is the criterion for placement," says Brown. "A student can conceivably pursue college calculus while taking a remedial English course at the fourth-grade level...
...invitees. They consulted at length with faculty members acquainted with the four topic areas: Latin America, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and Africa. The choices made for the Middle East were made with the advice and assistance of staff members at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. The general criterion used in making the selections for the panels was the extent to which the individual chosen would represent the largest possible regional cross-section. While Israel is certainly an important nation, and deserving of representation on any panel dealing with the problems of the Middle East per se, the fact...
...MARQUISE OF O-AND OTHER STORIES (318 pp.)-Heinrich von Kleist -Criterion...
...audiences." If you are producing plays for audiences you can't be producing them for your own uninhibited instruction. To produce plays for audiences is, by inescapable implication, to produce plays audiences will like, and if the purpose is to produce plays audiences will like, then success becomes the criterion art when success is the criterion art is out the window and where is your instruction then...
That being so, the possibility that success will become the criterion in the Loeb to the neglect of art is not as terrifying as it sounds. Plays are not "for" audiences in the sense in which rings are for fingers or America is for the Americans. The relation is not one of possession or even one of pleaser and pleased: to Brecht, for example, whose plays are "for" audiences in the most explicit sense, the last thing de- sired was that the audience should be "pleased" in any fashion Broadway understands. The playwright's task and the actor...