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Without violating the text, which has been rendered into fluently idiomatic English by Christopher Hampton, the sure and subtle inflection of Patrick Garland's direction makes Ibsen appear as the godfather of Women's Lib. If it counts as an imprimatur, Betty Friedan was in the opening-night audience. Since Ibsen is a seductively powerful dramatist and the evening's didactic thrust is something like "Go thou and do likewise," it is important to examine Ibsen's intent and Nora's behavior...
...general, U.S. museums do not just reflect art history. They program and write it through their selections, their "theme shows" and their imprimatur. But Manhattan's Whitney Museum, with dedication if not full impartiality, has clung to the principle of a survey-not declaring where it thinks artists are supposed to go but where they are actually going. In the present show, devoted this year to sculpture, there are 99 artists showing one work apiece, and it is simply intended to provide a survey of American sculpture as it now stands...
...Bell is afraid of anything that has not received its papal imprimatur being plugged into its system. This is like an electric company trying to discourage the installation of air conditioners and washer-dryer combinations. If the phone company would only encourage the use of its system by innovative equipment manufacturers, it would suddenly find 200 million Americans working for Bell on their own time, rather than working against it. The increase in communications traffic would jump enormously because 200 million people can think of a lot more things to do with a communications network than one corporation can think...
Missing Dicta. Despite the imprimatur of Washington's conservative Patrick Cardinal O'Boyle, the N.A.B. enshrines many Protestant critical theories that have won wide acceptance in Catholic seminaries in the past 20 years. The Douay preface once reminded everyone that since God inspired the Bible, it could have no "formal error," and that the church must be the ultimate interpreter. These dicta are now missing. In other departures from Douay, the N.A.B. questions the Bible's strict historical accuracy, avoids old insistences that Matthew (which contains key passages bearing on Catholic dogma) was the earliest Gospel...
...political science, Moreno was a helpful hand in toppling the corrupt regime of President Zamora and aided the rise to power of Angel Bello, the people's hero. Bello rewards Moreno by making him a puppet president, whose essential task is to lend the revolution a respectable imprimatur...