Word: fittings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Contract, or Ulysses, or Freudian theory, with absolute fluency. One constructs long summer reading lists, or projects complex plans of study, which are never completed. By the middle of sophomore year one has grown desperate over the amount of reading one must still do in order to become a fit candidate for a Harvard education. One buys book after-book, and after hastily trying to master them fears that he has absorbed nothing. He difficult to realize that one must grow in common sense before one can grow in knowledge...
...first of these was the notion of adapting educational programs to fit the student, rather than bending the student into a rigid academic mold. This idea of educating the individual qua individual continues strong today, Pusey said, and forms the justification for the College's tutorial program, and, more recently, for the freshman seminars...
Togetherness. Such Happenings set just the right tone for a festival honoring the 70th year of Darius Milhaud, and when Composer Milhaud turned up in the Mills Concert Hall, he had a Happening of his own ready to fit the occasion. The hall was aswim with students, colleagues and devotees as Milhaud conducted the first performance of the 401st composition of his long career-a Suite de Quatrains for seven instruments and the speaking voice of his wife Madeleine. To the delight of the admiring audience, the Suite turned out to be a "chance" work, in which all seven players...
...ancient Orient. In Peking, he lovingly explores every crevice of crumbling palaces. "Praised be luxury," he cries, "superfluous luxury, the peacock's plume! That is what civilization is: to feel that luxury is as indispensable as bread." But the Chinese are embarrassed by their past and consider it fit only for tourists. They scoff at Kazantzakis' bourgeois concern for beauty. "I hate beauty because it dries up hearts," a Chinese tells him. "Your heart, so tender in appearance, is dry and cruel, like the hearts of all artists. You do not think of human suffering...
...Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, by Edward Albee. A history professor (Arthur Hill) and his bitter half (Uta Hagen) mercilessly tell all the news that's not fit to print about each other. Playwright Albee's larger theme is the sterility of modern life, but it is the nonstop savagery between husband and wife that jolts playgoers...