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...acting appears genuinely untouched by directorial hands. Certainly Cooper must never have heard of "pace," as it is indiscriminate throughout, with most scenes (such as "The Sneeze") unbearably slow and mis-timed. When a scene crackles and takes off, it is usually the result of a good performance; Jeff Harper, for example, who performs three startingly different roles with dash, bravura, and intelligence, is largely responsible for bringing off "The Drowned Man," an amusing episode about a sailor who'll drown himself for 60 kopecks. Jacques Semmelman plays a decent, if uninspired, Chekhov (the narrator), but in this contest...
...adequately share those thoughts with others, everyone loses. Scholars grow more isolated and the public more puzzled and hostile to their efforts. Discoveries in some fields, especially in the sciences, will always be too hermetic to become common knowledge overnight. But simple prose could clear up much mis understanding. The task may be impossible; Van Leunen shows how it could be done...
Declining performance. After more than a decade of vaunted "innovations" ? free-form "open classroom" programs, flexible mod ular scheduling, enough electronic gadgetry to make some schoolrooms look like Mis sion...
...This is what I think. Isn't that surprising?" asks Feld, 34, a brilliant choreographer who seems mildly baffled by his witty, ribald new dance. "This ballet concerns some of my feelings about us, about America. It's [he tests the word syllable by syllable] op-ti-mis...
...description for tutors, improvements for facilities, especially the Quad's and the replacement of the title "co-master" by "associate master," a post which would bring a small stipend. Serving as a testimonial to the weakness of the recommendations is this closing note about the dangers of House mis-management: "Even in so small a matter as the tuning and upkeep of pianos, the Houses have functioned as autonomous units, each Master hiring his own tuner. As of 1976-77, however, all pianos will be taken care of by one [italics theirs] tuner. This small innovation in procedures ought...