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Films and other audio-visual aids are an improvement in teaching technique and a potential answer to the current shortage of teachers, Sauer commented...
...Edwards provides splendidly perceptible and atmospheric gloom to emphasize the foreboding mood. But the almost surreal quality of this passage, its combination of mystery and sublimity that survives the most dreary Shavian bathos when read with half an ear and half a soul, is turned by its current interpreters into a distracted pandering for tepid chuckles. Mr. Clurman has caused the weird chant to be accompanied by a jolly jig, and Maurice Evans delivers Shotover's curtain line with a phlegmy ingratiation that completely drains it of grandeur...
...Anger will go down in history for leading British drama out of the drawing room and into the rooming house, for giving it a good shot of O'Neill-Miller-Williams influence, and for varying its genteel decorum with a rude, poignant intensity and a new relevance to both current and recurrent human concerns. But the analogous revolution for British movies has already been accomplished by Room at the Top, and the film version of John Osborne's play appears as a good piece of work in an established genre of sex-and-the-class-struggle movies...
From the time when the faculty adopted it a decade ago, General Education has been peculiarly vulnerable to pressures from every department which wished to make concentration easier or more thorough. The English department's current attempt to annex Humanities 6 is the latest case in an almost unending war between the interdepartmental nature of General Education and the highly departmentalized form of Harvard College...
...FOOTNOTE* The alternator generates alternating current, which is turned into direct current for the car's electrical system by a rectifier. Previously, rectifiers were too bulky for use in autos, but Chrysler has adopted miniaturized silicon-diode rectifiers used in missiles...