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...notice. He has made the play flow, but not swiftly. And this is right. One should not look for violent physical action and rapid pace in Greek drama, since the ancient actors were encumbered by masks, long robes, kothornoi (special raised shoes) and ogkoi (large headdresses); and, in lieu of a curtain, there were choral stasima, sometimes lengthy, to denote the passage of any amount of time between scenes. Nor should one expect to see many characters together on stage, since a maximum of three actors was available to play all the roles...
Skinner answers the standard objections to mechanized education. First, far from treating the child "as a mere animal," the machines would be resigned to relieve the teacher of routine, but necessary, drill. The teacher would not be replaced, but "may begin to function, not in lieu of a cheap machine, but through intellectual, cultural, and emotional contacts of that distinctive sort which testifiy to his status as a human being...
...stewards provide something for everybody - straw slippers and chopsticks on flights to Japan, kosher and Moslem diets for Near East travelers, fine and fattening French foods on the blue-ribbon routes. Last year alone, Air France served 500,000 bottles of wine aloft, including champagne, provided on request in lieu of breakfast orange juice on some de luxe runs...
...amazed." Monty, who went to Denver in lieu of keeping a year-old date with Ike to tour the Gettysburg battlefield, warmed to his subject: "He's your President, but there are a lot of us in Europe who want to come and see him . . . We value him very highly, terribly highly ... He is one of the very few who . . . visualize this vast problem [defense of the free world] in a global...
...World technique is not confined to acting in The Lark. Jo Miclziner's light-settings provide a pervarding modernistic tone. Although the effects are flashy, they are never offensive. In lieu of sets, Mr. Mielziner may have as many as three clashing colors splashed on stage at one time, but he never distracts attention from the players. Leonard Bernstein's incidental choral music, of which much is modal, seems equally impressive...