Word: failings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Students will have a chance to vote on the institution of an optional fifth course to be graded on a pass-fail basis when questionnaires are distributed by the HPC in the House dining rooms today...
...marital situation and occupation are all significant factors in proneness to suicide. One is most likely to try it and fail before 35 and to succeed after 50. In most of the U.S. and the Western world, more women than men make suicide attempts, but nearly four times as many men actually kill themselves. Single people are far more likely to kill themselves than the married-but who can say if they do it because they are unmarried or are unmarried because they are depressive people who are inclined to kill themselves? Divorced males seem to have a hard time...
...Broadway theater in Manhattan and was panned for its stacked-cards plotting. But Yale's Associate Drama Dean Gordon Rogoff finds value in critical flops. The university theater's function, he says, is to be "the one remaining place where one can afford to fail...
...been designed for show, with little or no regard to their effects on the sitter's back. From the hard, right-angled church pew at one extreme, to the overstuffed club chair at the other, he told a Yale-New Haven Medical Center forum last week, most chairs fail to give support where it is most needed: in the lower back...
License to Fail. The new stress in teaching theater has produced a spate of stunning new playhouses. The University of Illinois' entry is the $20 million Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, including three theaters. Tiny Shinier College (enrollment: 514) in Mount Carroll, Ill., has a 300-seat arena-type theater. The University of Michigan is building a $3,000,000 playhouse with 1,426 seats to serve the university and the off-campus Ann Arbor theater crowd. With $1,500,000 donated by Conrad Hilton, St. Louis' Webster College has put up its new Loretto-Hilton Center...