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Seltzer lists five reasons why drama should flourish in a university. Theatre makes use of other art forms he says; it valuably illuminates the connection between literature and history; in a university it finds a true amateurism; it is of value to individual students' educations; and it can help establish a permanent repertory of plays...

Author: By Donald E. Graham, | Title: The Harvard Review and the Loeb | 5/3/1966 | See Source »

...nebulous affair involving suddenly revived organizations dedicated to desenvolviment das ruas (street development), an unlimited supply of idea men, well-wishers, and skeptics, and the prompt attention of an incumbent councilman running for re-election who arrived with trucks and work crews and began spreading sand with a flourish...

Author: By William Krohley, | Title: Community Development: Its Name May Be Mud | 3/3/1966 | See Source »

...most importantly, we shall have thereby generated a climate in which rancor can be displaced by the spirit of charity, bitterness by compassion, fear by understanding; a climate in which good will shall flourish and abide in the hearts of our fellow citizens who have been torn by three stormy years of conflict and turmoil over the issue of racial impalance in our schools...

Author: By John F. Seegal, | Title: Thomas S. Eisenstadt | 3/3/1966 | See Source »

...great profundities behind the gothic facade. In the first place, the mandala does not simply demonstrate the exclusiveness of one consciousness from another's-even in twin brothers. Mandala does that brilliantly -the same events being seen in succession through the eyes of Waldo and Arthur. This literary flourish, however, is intended to reveal magical happenings and the workings of myth. But which myth? White may have drawn upon Australian aboriginal legend, which invests the possessor of rock crystals with divine power. Waldo and Arthur may also be seen as living out some version of the Greek myth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Shaman of Sarsaparilla | 2/11/1966 | See Source »

When they finally give up and decide that vegetarianism will not flourish in an impoverished country of starving, terrorized peasants controlled by the secret police, pack up their yeastrol and barmene, their departure is called "heroic." That such indomitable optimists are set back by Haiti is supposed to show us how terrible the situation is, but all it does is make us cringe with embarrassment for their feeble, blundering blindness...

Author: By William W. Sleator, | Title: Committed, Uncommitted Stage Dull Drama on Greene's New Set | 2/9/1966 | See Source »

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