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Eric Martin as the "fleshy poet," "with a love for admiration," originally modelled after lilytoting Oscar Wilde--handles his focal part with humour and almost no difficulties, although he did not project as well as might be desired. John Bernard as the "idyllic poet," is absolutely perfect as actor and singer, as he transfers from Renaissance Apollo to a "common, ordinary fellow...
...other focal character is a derelict doctor who, we are rather imperfectly told, came to town years before with his wife and the climate drove him to drink. He operated on her in childbirth when he was drunk, and she died. He is more or less expiating his deed as a futile, filthy, good-hearted drunk and buffoon. The central theme is largely the story of his "redemption" as he responds to the need of those around him in the plague, and to the widow's new-found attraction to him, and of her "acceptance" of things as they...
...weakened tutorial system has meant increased reliance on the focal method of educating large numbers of students. While it is perfectly true that Professor X can as well speak to 1,000 students as to 100, and while educational television may allow him to lecture to half the United States, these are not solutions to the central problem. Building larger lecture halls and more Houses will permit the College to expand, but at the expense of many inestimable values of student-teacher relationships...
...focal point of juvenile trouble in this area has been the two federal housing projects of New Towne Court and Washington Elms. Built in 1937 and 1941 respectively as slum clearance undertakings for families of low incomes, the developments are comprised of three-story brick and concrete apartment structures. In housing quality they rank better than any census tract in the city, but in human relations they show up very poorly. It is mostly the lower elements of society which tend to gravitate to these projects, and the more ambitious families are continually moving out. In addition, the projects crowd...
...began like a carnival day. Thousands of people thronged Budapest's old cobblestoned streets wearing red, white and green boutonnieres, tossing red, white and green ribbons into passing cars. Then gradually the crowd began to gather at focal points and to express its will, and then to march. A scared Communist official told an American businessman: "The earth is moving...