Word: meanness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even if your existence isn't mean, it can still be meaningless. Britain's dilletante nobles and the others who still take their tea quietly at four sit in their gardens maintaining their fortunes (luck and/or money). And because their lives are irrelevant to anything or anybody, the Beatles tell us, they are left alone (like Eleanor Rigby) standing in the rain...
...beautiful song that rolls up and down in simple, glorious repetition. Doing it on the Ed Sullivan Show, they winked, laughed, showed us it was a recording by not playing their instruments, and hoohaed the prime time audience into the ground. Once more the Beatles are making the music mean as much as the text and more...
...goodbye-I say hello". Serious fans read into this a put-down of the hippies' offhand and mindless acceptance of everything and everybody. They're pretty much right. But it doesn't matter: the song is quite catholic and can readily mean anything you feel like when you say hello...
Another of BIT's objectives is to combine and enlarge the field education programs at the seven schools in the institute. A joint program would eliminate all competition for field opportunities. It would also mean that various denominations could share the same experiences...
Judgment is an uncommon virtue in house theatre. The most obvious temptations are to attempt too much, or to be statisfied with too little. Credit for the mean struck in the Adams House As You Like It must go not only to Michaels and his cast, but also especially to the designer, Randall Darwall, and the costume designer, Mara Stolurow. The canopied, vine-draped setting, as flexibly lit by Donald Blair, manages to provide an unusual number of strong acting areas while evoking by turns both the sharp Arden Winter and the generous Spring...