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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spread of political apathy and to lament it has become commonplace. This lack of deeply felt political commitment reflects to a large degree, I believe, the broad areas of agreement on major issues, which we have just examined. The more fully we recognize and accept that consensus, the more difficult it is to tackle the remaining differences with the zeal and the energy which our democratic tradition seems to demand...
...increasing group of articulate and thoughtful observers holds that if the adoption of this difficult and more positive approach to our present global dilemma is dependent on the workings of the democratic process in America and elsewhere, we must despair of it. The inherent characteristics of democratic government, they insist, make it impossible for nations so governed to choose the hard course. Those in power, in order to maintain their positions, must continuously cater to the domestic interests and whims of a fragile and shifting numerical majority. Inevitably these interests, even in critical periods such as this, will reflect. short...
...argue, as I have, that these features are ill-advised; that strictures in the act make it unduly difficult to organize unions, particularly in parts of the South; that some of the "rights" conferred on management do more harm than good if our objective is a healthy, peaceful relationship between these two great participants in our productive process; and that these weaknesses would seriously threaten our economic welfare in a period of depression...
...this greater amount of material to which course instructors object. Papers are more difficult to grade than hour exams because of their length and because their higher thought content requires more careful deliberation from the grader. This, however, is not a valid argument against having more papers in courses. If the college considers papers to be a really valuable stimulus to education, it must hire more graduate students to perform the drudgery of grading. In this way, it will develop the ability to work out a problem thoroughly instead of the now prevalent hour exam spirit of gamesmanship...
Something Wild, as Hal Scott says in his opening declamation, is about decadence. Scott and his HDC'ers stay well within this theme--no difficult feat with Tennessee Williams--yet accomplished acting makes these three short plays represent more than decadence: each becomes, with skillful handling, an escape into freedom...