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...Mary continues with sellout houses, and Shelagh Delaney's raw and powerful A Taste of Honey is still on the boards, as are the musicals Camelot (Arthur and the Round Table), Carnival! (a Broadway version of the film Lili), and Irma La Douce (Parisian underworld). From the Pleistocene epoch: Fiorello!, a musical replanting of New York's Little Flower; The Sound of Music, the last and most sentimental work of Rodgers & Hammerstein; and, of course, My Fair Lady, by George Lerner and Bernard Loewe...
...Humanity stands, for better or for worse, on the threshold of a new historic epoch," he said. "We do not wish to make the world over in our own image-and we will not accept that the world be made over in the image of any society or dogmatic creed. Against the world of coercion, we affirm the world of choice." He placed the problem within a moral context: "It is right to do these things because peoples are in need of help, and we are able to help them to help themselves; because their children sicken and die while...
...year 1923 there appeared in Paris a little volume on architecture that seemed written almost entirely in italics and capitals. "There exists a new spirit," it said. "A GREAT EPOCH HAS BEGUN." Its title was sweeping: Towards an Architecture-as though existing architecture did not merit the term. The book was signed by a brilliant, owlish young man who called himself Le Corbusier...
...expect me to react? It's beautiful!" an eminent Russian physicist visiting Harvard declared yesterday about the epoch-making flight into space of jet Air Force Major Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin...
M.I.T. is, of course, proud of such credentials. But 'M.I.T.'s faculty members are the first to protest that headline-making achievement is only a by-blow of M.I.T.'s real purpose: that of producing scientists and technologists able to cope with and lead an epoch of thunderbolt change. Can they be mass-trained? At M.I.T., with its 6,300 students (including 154 coeds rather chillily referred to as "the women students"), the answer is yes. But how? M.I.T.'s answer lies in its willingness to change itself...