Word: meetings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...through towns with tall white steeples, through prosperous farms, friendly campuses and towering skyscrapers, he barely bothered to look out the window. At week's end in San Luis Obispo, Calif., he turned the Marxist cliche around by complaining that the American "authorities" had not let him meet the real people, had kept him under virtual "house arrest...
...initially on a particular problem interesting and important to the group; after a few weeks he will steer the group into the "core reading," then will return to re-examine the original dilemma. An important part of Riesman's program is "cross-fertilization" through weekly dinners, where students will meet other staffmen and students from other sections, as well as guest speakers, and occasional joint workshop meet...
...work in period costume and old-school ham acting style; and the result was unflaggingly hilarious. Booing, hissing, and the throwing of peanuts were actively encouraged. A pianist furnished background accompaniment on a worn upright; and during the intervals singers favored the audience with such oldies as "'Til We Meet Again," "Curse of an Aching Heart," "Goodbye, Little Yellow Bird," "Father, Dear Father, Come Home to Me Now," "I'm Just Wild About Harry," and "Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone." The Playhouse is closing its summer schedule currently with a production of Louis Peterson...
Once a week or so, an elderly Negro woman stalks down the crowded sidewalks of Harvard Square and Massachusetts Avenue, crying out in a dire, haunting voice, "Prepare to meet your God!" Her hat and dress are bedraggled, and she carries a worn paper shopping bag in one hand while the other is raised in ominous prophetic warning. The passers-by either smirk or ignore her or shake their heads: the last thing any Harvard or Radcliffe undergraduate expects to do on the public streets or elsewhere is to meet his God--at least in any literal sense...
Riesman Groups Meet Tonight...