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...perverted. It is included because this too is a part of life that he would redeem. Miller has a great and wonderfully positive enjoyment of the senses, but he is unlike his characters who try to use sex as a narcotic. He wants to redeem degraded sex, too, to encompass the dank and foul-smelling underworld of existence into his vision, and to draw forth whatever ecstasy can be found even there. His sympathy extends to all of human life; even what he hates must be redeemed...
Almost certainly not, and to count on it would be a dangerous illusion for the West. China is so vast that no calamity can encompass the whole of it. While food is short everywhere, some provinces are far better off than others. Though most factories are badly run, all are not, and despite fatigue there is a slowly growing competence among skilled laborers. The Communists have even found a sunny side to the commune experience. Explained a Red official: "It wasn't production, it was education. Our people were in awe of technological processes. Now they have learned...
...course system outlined in the Faculty Committee report General Education in a Free Society. Gen, Ed, for example, was originally envisioned as the one educational experience to be shared by all Harvard students, a central core to which later specialized knowledge could be added. Yet no "common core" could encompass so many divergent courses, and so many elective choices, as the present program offers in each of the three basic areas...
...Boris was whittled down to two hours from two hours, 45 minutes. Inevitably, a great many scenes suffered: the garden scene, with its stately polonaise, now consisted of a hurried procession of guests who appeared to be on their way to a cookout. The television camera could not encompass the crowd effects that are so important to Boris; and the Idiot at opera's end had only a thicket of birch .trees, rather than a forest, in which to sing his prophetic curtain song...
Labaree has suggested, and Monro mildly approves, that a pilot program next year might encompass the Greenough-Pennypacker-Hurlbut group and make use of the married tutor already resident there. Such an experiment would not tell anybody very much, but since, as Monro points out, decisions like these are usually just the result of allowing a concept to percolate, the pilot project might step up the heat...