Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opportunity of discussing this theater with Jo Mielziner a few months ago. Mr. Mielziner, who designed the sets for "Mister Roberts," "South Pacific," "A Streetear Named Desire," and "Death of a Salesman," is beyond a doubt America's top scenic designer. His feeling is that "the present method of flying scenery above the stage is still the fastest, most efficient means of shifting. Modern drama is written with flying scenery in mind, and for this reason 'The New Theater' cannot be adapted by the commercial theater for quite some time...
Interview Method...
...find out what is the product of the four years in the Harvard community, the surveyors will use a method similar to that developed by the committee which produced the "Poskanzer Report" on Harvard education last year. Subjective interviews and questionnaires will be designed to discover "changes in the student's values induced by his living in the Harvard community." They will gather opinions on academic and extra-curricular activities and on personal matters of ideals and ethics...
...program was abandoned during the war when the Army wouldn't accept its training but Dean James M. Dunning of the Dental School now claims that the school will never return to the conventional method of dental school train...
...discovered a method for making the elective system work better than getting people to vote. Most students will vote for the man upstairs, or the eager characters across the hall. That is fine--at least they know their classmates. Too many do not, and so do not vote at all. They could talk to a few candidates and pick a favorite. It wouldn't hurt...