Word: followed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This allows for some interesting contrapuntal effects when two areas are lit and two actions go on simultaneously, and it shows that the authors had an eye towards maximum use of the resources of the stage. On the other hand, these effects are difficult to follow in the reading, and it must be difficult in the theatre to keep the eye and the attention focused in two directions at the same time...
...while interesting and in some ways constructive, suffers, I believe from two major defects. In the first place, it seems to be based on interviews held more than a year ago; we have made many changes since. More importantly, it sets up false alternatives: either, it implies, we must follow the Cornell system, or teach French, German, etc. as dead languages. We have managed to avoid both these extremes. (Even Cornell has recently modified its method to make it less flagrantly anti-humanistic.) Nor does anyone in the Division of Modern Languages, to my knowledge, believe in disregarding the "aural...
...sticks are fitted with eyes that appear to be jequirity beans, are deadly poisonous. The Cincinnati testers fed one of the eyes to a rat, which promptly died. The U.S. PHS warned that if a small child eats one of the beans, serious and perhaps fatal illness may follow...
...Passion (by Elmer Rice) has not gone to Hamlet merely for its title; it has gone there, quite openly, for its basic characters and plot. Since many Hamlets of one kind or another preceded Shakespeare's, it is not out of line that others should follow it; after all, it is for being the most fascinating of English plays that Hamlet remains the most familiar...
...with New Synthetics. The cure "for some of the industry's ills," says Indian Head's Robison, "might be compounded from more aggressive, imaginative policies in research, production, control and marketing." The industry has already started to follow such a prescription...