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Northern liberals who hope the Negro's life experience will impart a shap sense of injustice and a propensity for social criticism had best revise their estimates. Many of the acknowledged victims in America, whether trade unionists fighting for organizational rights in the thirties, or Negroes demanding civil rights in the sixties, regard themselves as victims of accident, not policy. The belief is that the system works, and the trick is to get inside the system, not to change...
...experience, I would agree that the quality of the very best students at Illinois is on a part with that of the best at any of the more prestigious institutions. It is also undeniable that in many departments of the University the faculty and the instruction they impart are first-rate, and that the graduate schools, particularly in the natural sciences are excellent...
Melting Together. Christianity can justly claim to have relevance to impart. It offers a unified view of the world that has attracted men for centuries, and answers questions of love, life and death as few other religions do. Says Theologian Vorgrimler: "Real religion requires that God come close to man?and there Christianity has the most radical answers, by teaching that God has become man himself. This is a melting together of God and the world." German Marxist Philosopher Ernst Bloch admits: "Christianity is still a light shining in the darkness, and the light is stronger...
...aspirations and moments of strength, and Arthur Penn's direction, facile and clever in the best sense, gives it clarity from time to time. But the real faults are Mr. Weiner's. He has taken the not-too-interesting dilemma of a not-too-enlightened boss, and tried to impart a significance that just wasn't there...
Topicality becomes a problem for both directors, since each play was written with a timely, instructive purpose. Does Rosaldo really think Odets' desperate whining retains its topicality in these days of labor-management picnics and Taft-Hartley happiness? Does Fox think the strategic lessons which Brecht wants to impart in The Measures Taken are lessons which the Common Room audience could or should take seriously? If the answer in either case is yes, the directors failed on stage to explain why. Without that explanation their two weeks' toil seemed flat and offensive, or cute and inapplicable. Fox didn't sense...