Word: directing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more than any other course, is surrounded by an aura of mystery causing fantasies of primitive rites and intimate confessions. There appears something un-kosher about a course without a real teacher to direct the activities of the class, without a conventional structure in which everyone feels secure. It is this lack of authority which allegedly allows the pent-up hostilities of a frustrated University life to escape--devouring the vulnerable innocents...
Nonetheless, top honors of the show undeniably went to four Viennese men from something called the Institute for Direct Art. Black-shirted Hermann Nitsch gave a demonstration of his popular Blutorgie (blood orgy), in which he tore apart the cadaver of a freshly slain lamb, also gave a learned lecture on the "liberation of violent urges through catharsis." His colleagues, Otto Miihl and Gunter Brus, held an audience of 100 spellbound in St. Bride Foundation Institute when they smeared Susan Kahn, a visiting New York schoolteacher clad only in a black strapless bra and black panties, from head...
Federal Impact. The most direct cause of the new shortage, ironically, is the sudden proliferation of federal programs designed to aid education. The Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, aimed mainly at helping kids from poor neighborhoods catch up to their more affluent peers, created 60,000 extra fulltime teaching jobs for this school year. These teachers are, of course, still teaching, and in tasks where the schools are weakest: small-class remedial work in the three Rs, guidance counseling, tutoring. But they leave vacancies in regular classrooms...
...playing through his mind (he also knows the words and music to more than 1,000 lieder, continually amazes the singers by quoting snatches of librettos from obscure operas). At night, sitting in his office, he has been known to sneak a baton out of his desk drawer and direct with full arm movements the music pouring over the house speaker system...
Despite these demerits, Vogel & Co. presented a provocative cinematic circus. There were eye-grabbing sideshows enlivened by the thumps and grinds of U.S. independent film makers: exhibitions of Underground Cinema, Direct Cinema, and something the Marshall McLuhanatics call Expanded Cinema or Intermedia Kinetic Environment (IKE)-a sort of slap-happening half on and half off the screen. For movie goers who did not particularly like IKE, there was periodic excitement in the main tent. Seventeen nations were represented in a program that included ten or a dozen superb shorts and five fine features. Pursuing ever more strongly a direction evident...