Word: directorate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dance program was conceived not so much for people going to teach the arts, but for future school administrators and teachers, explained H. Nelson Goodman, professor of Philosophy and director of the Ed School's Project Zero which is sponsoring the show...
...Cliffies can really play well," director James Walker said last week, explaining the band's decision. The wind ensemble will perform chamber music more difficult than the Concert Band's repertoire, Walker said...
...Finian's Rainbow -- A heavyhanded, poorly acted film version of the musical, with nothing but the splendid score and the magnificent Fred Astaire to recommend it. The director, Francis Fred Coppola, has a bad habit of chopping people's hands and feet off; stars Petula Clark and Tommy Steele ought to act their age. At the SAXON, Tremont & Stuart...
...ALWAYS a cliche, most always a lie, to say that a director has somehow emancipated a play by taking liberties. So I won't say that, not exactly. What Timothy Mayer has done for The Bacchae is put it out of harmony with the stage conventions according to which it was written. He has emancipated it only from a narrow theatrical orthodoxy which insists on treating all plays of a given place and period alike, whose loyalty is to a set of rules empirically drawn from history rather than to the will of an author as unfolded in his work...
...uncritical director could, I guess, go too far excavating hints of one writer's insurrection against contemporary dogma. But in Euripedes the hints are powerful, and the greater danger probably that of underinterpretation. There is no avoiding, for example, his irregular attitude toward the divinity, which seems to have ranged from outright negation to the most grudging and unsettling sort of affirmation. In The Bacchae, the gods are gods indeed, but their order is--besides whimsical--cruel and misguided. And Mayer's willingness to portray Dionysus as an effeminate, self-absorbed individual, worthy of nearly every label the unbelieving Pentheus...