Word: generale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seven stars of Heartbreak House seem to be wandering aimlessly in a wilderness of script. Harold Clurman, for all his renown as director, critic, and general wise man of the theatre, seems to have no idea of what to do with Bernard Shaw's disturbing, strange drama...
...Hector is another of Shaw's Chinese-puzzle characters, whose identity opens up like a box to reveal a new one underneath, leaving him a paradox that is never resolved. One of his personae is that of the romantic hero, with a moustache "like a bronze candlestick" and a general air of being a cross between the Prisoner of Zenda and Henry V. Hector is also a boaster and a liar and his wife's lapdog, but he is so totally footling and gormless in Dennis Price's portrayal that his cries of agony go off like damp firecrackers...
From the time when the faculty adopted it a decade ago, General Education has been peculiarly vulnerable to pressures from every department which wished to make concentration easier or more thorough. The English department's current attempt to annex Humanities 6 is the latest case in an almost unending war between the interdepartmental nature of General Education and the highly departmentalized form of Harvard College...
...English Department's use of Hum 6 is a combination of convenience (for it is thus unnecessary to give courses in criticism for potential concentrators) and salesmanship, since English is a more attractive major when one does not have to "waste" a year on General Education. In reality, however, this policy perverts the fundamental philosophy of General Education and works considerable hardships on non-concentrators...
...encouraging students to take Hum 6, or a similar course, required of concentrators, should be created within the department. In any case, Professor Brower should stop giving concentrators special treatment. Only by such action will he be able to force members of the English department to recognize that the General Education program was not created for their own convenience...