Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Here, though," he says, "you must learn a game of give-and-go, of short on-the-ground passing, of making the ball do the work, with a minimum of dribbling...
...universities should be citadels of our freedom, the guardians and nourishers of free inquiry and expression. They are by their very nature the very custodians of our cultural heritage and the progenitors of a new day. They should be the testing ground for any and all ideas, even foolish ones. The American university should be in microcosm what we would wish for the American society, a free and open community filled with searching and thinking individuals, each seeking his own answers in his own way, yet each extending full respect for the ideals and life styles of others...
...study, and to assure that it--unlike the 1966-67 examination--will not be done by DPW-handpicked consultants. If successful, the City's strategy could produce a study recommending ways to ease the pain the Inner Belt would bring to Cambridge. The DPW appears to have given ground only grudgingly, attempting to assure that, once again, its plans for the Belt will be accepted after the study ends...
Heimert claims that his detachment from himself is characteristic of the downcast fifties, his age, the time when everyone walked with his head bowed to the ground and the only way to know heroes was "to sit in the room and read about them." The real men of the fifties are out in Belmont now, driving VW's, taking in a foreign movie now and again, speaking a bleached language and leading bleached lives. A dry-fuck life, Heimert would call it, if he weren't a shade too decorous to make a comment like that from any podium more...
...definition that badly undercuts the action of the play. Pentheus must metamorphosize somewhere along the line from a hyper-rationalist into a pathetic, obsessed figure; and Russom, or Mayer, has chosen the wrong moment for the metamorphosis. When Pentheus emerges from the ruins of his palace, razed to the ground by Dionysus, he should be a changed man, brought low like his palace and therefore susceptible to the god's vengeance. But as Mayer has staged it, the real change is postponed to the intermission, and Pentheus agrees to Dionysus's offer only out of intense curiosity. As a result...