Word: modern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...into the kind of generalization that may not be socially scientific and may be just a seeking modern analogies which don't exist. You have to warn yourself and take these chances. I think there is a great deal of resurfacing of traditional features of Chinese life in the midst of all this effort to make everything new and different, and meet modern problems. When a brilliant study appears like, for instance, Bill Skinner's study of marketing structure--here's a man whom some of you have read. He shows that in any given area, the markets occur...
...able to govern a quarter of a million people as a single, imperial official in this very superficial fashion because these local gentry these local degree-holder landlords, educated, influential people form a class that is helping to run things on the local scene. And now in the modern day, it doesn't take us very long to find the latter-day equivalent, the new form of this kind of local elite. The Communists have got to have it. And so you have another perspective on the Communist effort...
Anouilh underlined the contemporaneity of his play by employing a good deal of low-level speech such as the ancient tragedians avoided, and by specifying the use of modern dress in performance. The current Stratford production is as up-to-date as today's newspapers. It is framed by the on-stage playing of a rock 'n' roll combo, with a bunch of teenagers frugging away (including Antigone's sister Ismene, in a yellow and black miniskirt). The Greek chorus has been reduced to a single commentator by Anouilh (as Shakespeare had done with the Chorus in Henry...
Constance Garnett was a fine lady with a tin ear who translated the great 19th century Russian writers into a Victorian taffeta Modern Library prose. We owe her much thanks for her hardihood, but it is refreshing to find out every so often that Dostoevsky really didn't write that funny way. The Loeb Repertory Company has staged a collection of scenes from Crime and Punishment that pierces through the Garnettian fog to something close to the original electricity of Dostoevsky...
...most popular course offered this summer is apparently Fine Arts S-76, the History of the Cinema, which is attended by more than 200 people. Also drawing more than 200 students is Julian L. Moynihan's English S-163, Forms of Modern Fiction. And at 8 a.m. each morning about 160 students have gotten up to hear Howard Mumford Jones, Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of the Humanities, Emeritus, lecture on the major American authors...