Word: minding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among the many virtues of the play--as of most of Vidal's writing--is the freshness of the dialogue. He avoids dull or hackneyed speech; his lines are original and unpredictable, and be-speak an uncommonly imaginative creative mind...
...eyes a sort of psychoanalysis, though there is fortunately none of the professional mumbo-jumbo that normally accompanies such matters. She finally manages to exorcise the tormentors; thus the title of the play not only designates its physical locale but also symbolizes the catharsis of Virginia's crowded, confused mind...
...Stanley, grows in love only when she can decide his fault, which she so clearly sees, is extraneous to that love. She despairs when her father comes at last to see himself as he is, then agrees with her simple mother that the vanished hero dwelt only in the mind and let it be. These are two great women...
Here, Bernard Berenson '87, an extraordinary mind, a mind dedicated to the canons of renaissance grace and the call of exhaustive inquiry, has labored, searched and meditated. I Tatti has already become something of a legend...
...value of any of these proposals will in part depend on the value of tutorial; and with this in mind, the CEP recommended several measures designed to increase the importance of tutorial work. It was proposed that students receive grades for work done in tutorial, with these grades entered on the student's record. Moreover, the Committee felt that senior Faculty members, by devoting more time to tutorial, would improve the quality of instruction...