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Adding to the ferment, two pieces sharply disagree. Stanley Kauffmann explains how he got jobbed by the New York Times for trying to do "serious drama criticism" during his brief tour there last year. By contrast, Benjamin DeMott attacks Kauffmann's most discussed criticism: the two articles he did for the Sunday Times accusing homosexual playwrights of always trying to"invent a two-sex version of the one-sex experience." As DeMott sees it, the homosexuals contribute a valid theatrical experience -"a steady consciousness of a dark side of love...
...know how it will all turn out. There is a ferment in the church--tragic conflict and a crisis of both faith and trust. There is anger within the church. But there is determination also. I have a feeling that ministers and laymen who are commtited to the call of the Confession will continue to give their witness and that the church's contributions and membership will decline...
...fundamentally unnecessary and unjust. This week, the students have taken possession of the main buildings, and are running an "open university." In a letter from London which arrived yesterday, a friend described the round-the-clock seminars on educational theory and structure; lectures by sympathetic academics; and the general ferment of trying to discover what "freeing education" means, and how to implement such a revolution. "Time has lost its power at LSE"--such an achievement must inspire hope in a world where students usually feel only the pressures of time and power, and rarely the fruits of their control...
Hung in Effigy. There was an equal ferment at the 18 state colleges, whose $176 million budget Reagan proposes to cut by $6,000,000 (the colleges are seeking a $37 million increase) in addition to imposing a tuition of about $200. Reagan was hung in effigy...
...tour looked like a possible answer to their economic woes, but the U.S. group was far from a trade mission. Those who accepted our invitation paid their own way as concerned citizens, eager to learn about life and politics and economics in countries that are undergoing considerable change and ferment. They did not go as tourists but as acting journalists in direct dialogue with political and economic leaders in each country...