Word: eighteenth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the College represented as it now is nothing can be expected. The system can be compared only to the "rotten borough" one of eighteenth-century England. Except that while in the latter case it often made for a homogenous Parliament of able if unscrupulous men, in the case of the Student Council it produces a heterogeneous body of undergraduates who, no matter how able in their individual fields, are seldom capable of even a normal performance of what should be the duties of Student Council members, and who exert all their scrupulosity to avoid anything so compromising as action...
Perry retired in 1930, and so the field was left to his two co-pioneers. Greenough taught a course in eighteenth-century English thought and expression; Murdock taught a course in the American Novel...
Stanley Bell (who is the eighteenth generation in a line of actors going back to a member of Shakespeare's own Globe Theatre troupe) speaks clearly, but he makes the Duke of Venice far too young. The Duke has a marriageable daughter; and, in Bell's conception, his daughter could not be out of elementary school yet. Larry Gates, Kendall Clark, John Colicos and Jack Bittner are commendable in their supporting roles. In fact, one of the virtues of this company is that everyone has good diction; there are no harsh vowels or dropped consonants...
...most thoroughly base and despicable form that civilization has yet assumed... The Byzantine Empire was preeminently the age of treachery." It has taken many years to overcome the stigma of Victorian moralism, and Byzantinology will probably never receive the vogue accorded Greek and Roman civilization in the thirteenth and eighteenth centuries...
...Plays presented, sixteen were major productions, fourteen were Theatre Work-shop productions (exactly half of which were given over to original student scripts), and two were concert readings under the aegis of the Workshop. The plays drew from many categories: ancient Greek, medieval morality, Shakespearean and other Elizabethan drama, eighteenth-century comedy, nineteenth-century Russian and modern European and American drama. The other thirteen items were musical, comprising eighteenth-and nineteenth-century comedy and modern American comedy and tragedy...