Word: expression
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though he once reviewed the London theater for the Daily Express, Barnes resisted taking the Times drama job for a long time. For one thing, he is devoted to the dance and thinks that the greatest figures in the American theater are George Balanchine and Martha Graham. "Many Broadway plays are simply stage visualizations of TV dramas," he says. "I wonder whether Broadway can ever build a viable theater on a lower common-denominator taste...
...they could on T.V." when they appear at Harvard as public speakers. It would be much better to concentrate on the less prominent figures who could describe the pressures that affect their posture. But even here he is pessimistic about the possibilities: "There are very few men who can express themselves well enough to aptly describe the political process," he said...
...Masters contacted yesterday pointed out there is actually little a Master can do to prevent his Common Room from taking a public stand, other than express his personal disapproval...
...Orient Express...
...School was created by a group of former Columbia University professors-including Historian Charles Beard, Philosopher James Harvey Robinson and Economists Wesley Mitchell and Alvin Johnson-who felt that Columbia limited their freedom to teach unconventional courses and express unpopular views. By the early '30s, the New School had gained a certain vogue as a center of night-school uplift for left-wing intellectuals. It acquired new academic respectability in the mid-'30s by creating a "University in Exile" on the talents of about 50 European scholars who had fled fascism in Germany and Italy and formed...