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...approach is based upon some reasonable assumptions and several perhaps questionable corollaries. The first assumption: "No breeding ground for fantasy is so fertile as a society in a state of disintegration and flux." Postwar England was just that. The core fantasy of postwar Englishmen, as Booker gloomily sees it: a tendency to mistake disintegration and flux for the throes of rebirth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The End of the New | 7/6/1970 | See Source »

...that a highly intelligent person interested in the theatre but not interested in producing. in a sense, within the theatre, can have a value, a realvalue. a meaningful one to the theatre and to the people in the theatre but what that value is is in a kind of flux. For example, every piece we've done in the last three years we've found it necesary to play in Europe before we play it in the United States. One reason is because we're very, very involved with the question of the interaction between the performance, the performer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bare Stage | 5/21/1970 | See Source »

Given the unusual length of Shakespeare's play and its bewildering flux between serious and fantastic themes, director Seltzer's first task was to condense and unify the action. The whole production ultimately flounders because he and his actors cannot fabricate a larger coherency out of this diffuse material. The net result is chaotic, although somewhere in all the dense overflow of rich color and sentiment, there were elements of genuine merit...

Author: By James M. Lewis., | Title: The Playgoer The Winter's Tale | 5/4/1970 | See Source »

STUDENTS in the Graduate School of Design fear that the school's harassment of the Urban Field Service and Chester Hartman, its director, will destroy the program. The Design School is in a state of flux; curriculum reform is overdue. In contrast to the rest of the school, Field Service provides basic education for students who honestly wish to learn how to improve the urban environment. UFS must not be hounded out of existence, nor changed into something acceptable and non-controversial. UFS is an outstandingly successful program which deserves the full public and private support...

Author: By Dolores HAYDEN Campen, | Title: GSD's Urban Field Service: Publicly Praised and Privately Pressured | 2/17/1970 | See Source »

...involved there were real problems: the lease had expired in most cases, and the houses were either too expensive to buy or too dilapidated to make them financially justifiable for either purchase or another five-year lease, particularly when the Radcliffe housing situation is in such a state of flux...

Author: By Susan Elliott, | Title: 'OFF' AND 'OFF-OFF' | 1/14/1970 | See Source »

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