Word: fountains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ceremonous unfolding and folding of a large cloth, a less mechanical and more suggestive device than a curtain for marking the division between the presence of actors and the progress of a play. William Barnum's slow and deliberate opening mime as the Old Man at the elusive fountain of immortality does more to set the scene than the other actors are later able to maintain. Barnum and Wally Know as the Young Man (Cuchulain), use thir mature voices to form a firm center of dialogue in a production that's otherwise weak in intonation and uncertain in supporting roles...
...should love Henry Miller for stopping the automatic process of living, and recreating his life on his own terms. But where once there was an unquenchable fountain of life's blood is this dribble of a book. Miller has been exploited by the forces of air conditioning...
...stayed with a friend of her mother's, then moved into a hotel for women, only to be thrown out and have her clothes confiscated when she could not pay the bill. Neither parent could be found for help, and she spent one night on the steps of the fountain in front of the Plaza Hotel, another in Central Park. Luckily, she was cast in an off-Broadway revival of Best Foot Forward. The salary, $34 a week, barely covered expenses...
...layman, these designers may seem innocuous people who spend their time adding chrome strips to auto bodies, streamlining fountain pens, creating bright new packages. But Papanek indicts his own colleagues for forgetting the context of their innovative work. Since they occupy a key position in the transformation of an idea into a product, he says, designers could insist on manufacturing processes that do not damage the environment. Instead, he charges, their primary aim is to increase sales through wasteful changes in style. They also clutter the market with basically useless products -electrically heated footstools, ballpoint pens crowned with plastic orchids...
...seminary established in Cambridge in 1636; our teachers are not much concerned with pointing us along the peculiar lonely path which the Puritans followed to spiritual salvation. Nor are its values those of classical education: Harvard really does not try very hard to force us to drink of the fountain of Western civilization...