Word: essays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Both Smithers and Landau should be made to listen to the Queen Mab vocal scherzetto and orchestral scherzo from Berlioz' "dramatic symphony" Romeo and Juliet before Smithers sets foot on the Festival stage again. In fact, no director should essay this play until he has studied all of the Berlioz masterpiece, the only work based on Shakespeare's play that surpasses the original. Significantly, in his Sunday appraisal of this production, the New York Times' Brooks Atkinson was also moved to invoke the Berlioz work. Although he made some inaccurate statements about both Berlioz and his symphony, his basic point...
Alfred Chaoul Khozouri Bakhash '59 of Lowell House and Teheran has received the $500 Helen Choate Bell prize for his essay "Combat with the Sun: A Study of Wallace Stevens' 'Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction.'" Honorable mention went to Mrs. Roberta Segal Karmel '59 of Boston for her essay "William Dean Howells and the Isolated Personality...
...Control in Soviet Industry" summarizes the managerial features of Soviet industrial production in a systematic manner. Martin shows how a checks and balance system works in management and points out that circumventing the rules from on high is the key to success for the individual plant manager. Martin's essay is valuable condensation, but its strength lies in organized presentation not analytic astuteness...
...done. The casts of the marvelous steles found at Copan are barley visible in the gloom of the end of the third-floor hallway. The public is naturally only mystified by the great casts of which many are unidentified and none is explained by an easily legible descriptive essay...
...many other respects, the current Annex annual is a smaller replica of its brother publication, 323. Indeed, its pages 9 through 63 and some of the later ones are duplicates of pages in the Harvard book. There is the same faculty section, the same photo essay of Cambridge at night, the same love poem. And this is as it should be, since these things are shared by Harvardmen and 'Cliffies alike. For those elements which are still "strictly Radcliffe," there are other sections unique to the Annex volume...