Word: forme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Every poll shows him with nearly a 2-to-l lead over Carter among Democrats and independents. Carter has disappointed almost every constituency that put him in office. And those constituencies, especially the blacks, Hispanics and working-class white ethnics who form the spine of the Democratic Party, seem ready to invest many of their hopes in Ted Kennedy...
...Faculty did, however, offer what any good bureaucrat would consider the next best thing to a slot on the agenda--it appointed a committee "to examine the issues." Although the Faculty planned to form the committee by the end of the '68-'69 academic year, it did not name the members until August, and the committee in turn did not meet until September. And no Faculty members recall hearing a committee report. On professor said he thought Giles Constable '50, professor of History, might have reported, but Constable denies ever sitting on such a committee...
When Faculty members discovered that the only alternative--and the one the University eventually adopted--was to admit 40 per cent more women, they got nervous again. Increased enrollment might mean greater demands placed on Faculty in the form of more tutorials and larger lectures. Greater teaching commitment--never a chore relished by the Faculty--dampened any enthusiasm for expanded enrollment...
Though Dirty Linen finds Stoppard in poor form as a thinker, it has its funny moments--when he resists the temptation to use simple bawdy humor and recovers his quirky intellectual muse. In the original London production of the show, the company had a sense of proportion, and carefully understated the strangeness of Stoppard's dialogue to make it sound more believable. Thus the show's introductory sequence--in which two MPs arrive in the committee room and converse for several minutes using only foreign cliches--succeeded through the lack of self-consciousness on the stage...
...Found-Land, Stoppard's play-within-a-play, both the author and the performers are in better form. New-Found-Land is in some ways even more of a trifle than Dirty Linen--it's essentially two monologues, one delivered by a senile minister about his youthful meeting with Lloyd George, the other by a young civil servant about his dreams of America. John Straub as Bernard, the codger, steals the show with simple, somnolent nods of his head--a note of comic understatement other members of BARC could learn from...