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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Touch's family is made up of dull, joke-cracking father Jack; shallow, bourgeois mother Ruth; precocious and sensitive son Tom (he's just won a national English contest); and maiden but equally sensitive aunt Emily. The action of the play centers around bringing Tom and Emily together, breaking down the walls of alienation which are physically represented by their separate garret-like rooms. Emily speaks to Tom only through monologues into a tape recorder, a device which Mr. Schwartz uses to great advantage...
...Still, alone of all the Soviet artists who prefer the Western side of the Iron Curtain, Ashkenazy refuses to defect, clings carefully to his Russian citizenship. He hardly notices that each year he edges a little farther away. In the old days, he forgot to put articles in his English ("I had best steak of my life in Cleveland airport"); now he speaks it fluently. He has recently gone out of his way to make a second career as a duo pianist, sharing the billing with St. Louisian Malcolm Frager. And though still wryly withdrawn, he has lately come...
...year, then wait with dramatic desolati "My fate depends on a couple of people sitting in an office 2,000 miles away," says a Yale senior. Vanderbilt Senior Robert Thiel worked three days on his application to Yale, including a five-page essay and translation of a long English paragraph into German and French, got a one-sentence rejection. He spent five hours on his Stanford application, got a two-paragraph form rejection. It took him only 15 minutes to apply to the University of Virginia, where he was accepted...
Seniors seeking English and history graduate degrees have the toughest competition and the least financial aid. Science and engineering majors have it made; federal and other grants are plentiful. Medicine and law are tight, mainly because these professional schools-despite huge shortages of practitioners -are reluctant to enlarge...
...minute film Un Dance d'Amour, produced and directed by Jean Genet, had been scheduled as the last of four movies to be shown in the course this Spring. But, after section men previewed the film late Wednesday night, Robert H. Chapman, associate professor of English, decided that the movie was not "fit for such general consumption...