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...women who do appear are simple farm laborers gathering up a potato crop. In rigid lines and soulless silence, they move forward, whisking loose dirt from the potatoes and tossing them into baskets. They are harrowing illustrations from Edwin Markham's The Man with the Hoe: "Time's tragedy is in that aching stoop...
Morita's speech led off the second annual summer series of discussions sponsored jointly by the Institute of Politics and the Summer School Jane Markham, program coordinator of the IOP Forum, said this week that the "tremendous response" to last year's experiment encouraged the organization to schedule the series again...
...ever will be spared one worry--the fear that a flop would preclude any further attempts to mount politically relevant drama in the space. "I don't think we're going to be daunted, even if we're not as successful as we think we will be," says Jane Markham, the IOP's liaison for the project, who expresses a firm commitment to support not only Antigone and Hair, (going up as soon as Antigone comes down), but similar projects in the spring as well...
...space for props and costumes, or about the difference between a seating plan with sight-lines to a single podium and one geared to the varied action of a play. And the show, though mounted very simply, ran over its $1200 budget because of "our complete lack of everything." Markham says, explaining, "It's just so different from what we ordinarily...
...others, however, believe one could alter the media's behavior. Price feels the networks emphasize only what people want to hear. "It's a celebrity-oriented society. It's hard to see how anyone could turn that around." Edward C. Banfield, Markham Professor of Government, sees little need to change either the media or the political system drastically. "Given the realities of American life, I don't know if there's anything wrong with the system. One can imagine what would happen if Abraham Lincoln appeared and tried to give a Cooper Union address to the American people. There wouldn...