Word: hummed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...play's delight lies in the parodies, its unavoidable weakness in the occasional dips into ho-hum solemnity. Playwright George Herman's academician alter-ego elbows aside the comic dramatist, forcing a meaning which the humorist could carry less intrusively. Herman's over-seriousness trips us the cast as well. The two straight scenes suffer from awkward blocking and sags in tempo while the comic sections skip around similar problems. What's worse, the dialogue smothers itself under a dead weight of philosophizing. Fortunately, Herman's didactic compulsion interfere only infrequently, and the comedy is allowed to bounce ahead...
...cannot abandon Winthrop House to the jocks too hastily, however, for it is the only House to offer a course in drama: "Hum 96v"--Society and Politics in Western Drama. Given by four tutors in the House, Hum 96v will work on a play (yet to be selected by the members of the course) as a class exercise and will eventually present it in the Loeb Ex in the spring. Hum 96v is one of the only courses for credit at Harvard which includes some practical work in the theatre. (The others are: George Hamlin's freshman seminar in acting...
...would like to see each professional school represented in the Gen. Ed. program by at least one course similar to Soc. Sci. 137, Soc. Sci 150, and Hum. 11 and 14. Through this commitment by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the increased opportunities for cross-registration recommended above, Harvard would acknowledge that a "liberal education" need not preclude an exposure to the traditionally "professional" disciplines...
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...situation, Haydon and Sandhu propose the use of toys to lure handicapped children into more normal activity. The "talking" carpet helps blind children to turn outside themselves for stimulation. So does the "buzz bubble," a plastic dome covered with electrodes that produce, on touch, sounds ranging from a low hum to a high whistle. The blind are also psychologically stimulated by the "tactile board," actually a big box with 35 compartments behind sliding doors that are finished in textured materials-sticks, beads, sandpaper, glass and felt. Tucking things away in the cubbyholes, blind children experience the thrill of finding them...