Word: jannings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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OUTSIDE the White House, carpenters banged together sturdy planks of high-grade pine to construct the inaugural-parade reviewing stand. With far less noise and motion, the man who will take the salute on Jan. 20 was also building, and also using first-rate materials. President-elect Richard Nixon, having picked most of his administrative staff, began to select policymakers...
...Sociologist Daniel Bell argued that today "the source of power comes from theoretical knowledge-and, as this is the case, the university will replace the corporation as the main source of innovation and direction. The university is the gatekeeper of society." If that is true, said Poland's Jan Kott, a professor of comparative literature, the U.S. university is not ready for the task. "After a year at Berkeley," he explained, "I think the university is a green zone of escape, not a real place in a real world. Two days after the takeover of Nanterre, De Gaulle...
Despite the conference's size, the group was surprisingly close knit and insular. It was somehow satisfying to walk into the cocktail party that initiated the conference and see Harold Cruse, the black writer, deep in conversation with Jan Kott, the Polish professor of Comparative Literature. Still, it was at the same time disconcerting to see how many of the new arrivals greeeted each other as old friends. Either the intellectual world was very small or representatives of only a small part of it had made it to the conference...
...Radcliffe's minimum goal of 30 qualified black students for the class of 1973 is not reached by the Jan. 1 application deadline, she added, the College will continue accepting applications until it is. "We will continue the search into the summer months if necessary," she said in a statement to the group...
...Schweyk and Gerard Shepherd as his gluttonous companion Baloun are admirable, though I wished in each case for certain qualities of size, and especially of what can only be called earthiness--which only actors of considerably more age and experience can be expected to convey. Among the ladies, Jan Gough does especially well as as Frau Anna Kopecka: her presence is grand although some of her readings could be sharpened in urgency. She and Nancy McGill carry most of the songs, and both deliver the remarkable Hanns Eisler tunes in fine, direct style. David Dunton scores a minor comic triumph...