Word: life
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SAME issue, ten other professors addressed themselves to the question: "Is it becoming more difficult to teach . . . because of changing attitudes about the relevance of the past, the life of the mind, and disinterestedness?" Most concluded that it had-it was, after all, a leading question. Some professors mention certain "rude" and "unbelievably ignorant" students, but they generally sympathize with what they believe to be the concerns of most of their pupils...
Barring any unseen provocations by some of Ulster's highly opinionated-which, in that province, is like barring life itself-Northern Ireland should be free for the next month or so of the kind of fighting and battling that took place this summer. The major Orange and Irish holidays for 1969 are over and the summer's troubles were provoked by celebration of these partisan holidays...
Fortunately for the sake of peace and quiet, but unfortunately for the standard of living, economic life in Ulster has been so difficult that no one has really had the energy or the time to devote any more than a few half holidays each year to the cause of either side. And the emigration of many of Ulster's bright, young, and vibrant people has robbed the province of some of its best people...
...America Hurrah is Jean Claude van Itallie's amazing trio of improvisational-styled sketches about the vulgar mechanization of American life...
...THEATRE COMPANY of Boston opens this week with two one-act plays that collectively make up probably the funniest evening of theatre currently running in New York. The plays are Adaptation, Elaine May's version of the game of life as viewed from the perspective of a TV quiz show, and Next, Terrence McNally's sketch about a 48-year-old man undergoing a humiliating draft physical. Two actresses near and dear to the hearts of Cambridge theatregoers, Susan Channing and Joan Tolentino, will be in the cast...