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...shortage of space as well as a change in attitude when Brustein's American Repetory Company moves into the Loeb. On the other hand, several professors believe Brustein will resolve the art-courses-for-credit controversy. Those who have been agitating for more arts in academia await Brustein, a knight in shining armor who will revitalize the battle. The whole issue boils down to one question," says Robert J. Kiely, professor of English, "When does an activity become a course?" Kiely believes that as long as a course retains a theoretical aspect, there is no reason why it shouldn...
...Valley had been one of the first young actors to combine sensitivity and uncertainty without losing the basic strength of childhood. They both anticipated the dreaminess and longing of Brandon De Wilde in Shane as the kid for whom the gunfighter on a horse became a white knight...
...other Shakespearean play has elicited such a range of interpretation and evaluation. If Agate declared it one of his "unfavorite" plays in the canon, Dover Wilson thought it Shakespeare's greatest work, Wilson Knight and Henry James placed it at the top of English literature, and Quiller-Couch proclaimed it the supreme work in all literature. For me, it has unsurpassed moments, but as a whole ranks below The Winter's Tale among the four late romances. Everyone agrees that the play means more than it says, but what that meaning is remains a bone of vigorous contention...
Basketball Coach Bobby Knight has long been famed for both his temper tantrums and his impressive won-lost record at Indiana University. At the Pan American games in San Juan last week, he embellished his reputation in both areas. He was coaching the U.S. basketball team in a practice session when the Puerto Rican policeman on duty allowed the Brazilian women's team into the gym before he was supposed to by Knight's account...
...confusing setto, Knight allegedly stung the cop with a barehand chop. Tossed into jail, Knight was released in time to see his team the gold against Puerto Rico, 113-94. His trial on an aggravated assault charge was put over until next month...