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Goldberg said the present grading system leads to two kinds of legal education--a superior one for students whose first-year grades qualify them for the Law Review, the mot prestigious student organization, and another for the rest of the student body. He added that he favors doing away with "Law reviews" at Harvard and other schools...
...director too, Babe has enfolded his vision in the mot trustworthy terms--spectacle: balloons erupting from the stage to stick all evening to the ceiling; Dance: a ring of slaves and master circling faster and faster to the chorus's "Oles;" Music: fragrant and powerful songs (though the singing was a bit ragged opening night...
...some ways, Franklin Ford is very conscious of his power and is wary of its overuse. By nature, he is mot one to force his views upon a reluctant party. When he brings a proposal before the fill Faculty, he prefers to limit his own comments to why discussion of the issue should be raised and of its relevance. He even resents being put on the line by someone's saying, "I would like to hear what the Dean thinks about this proposal." Ford believes any outspokeness distorts votes. "Some people who disagree with a plan will think that...
Mass for the Present Time is the latest production-and most spectacular success so far-of France's far-out choreographer Maurice Bejart, 40 (TIME, Nov. 6, 1964). Bejart admits that Mass may not be quite the mot juste for the work. "Part of it, though, is a sort of liturgy," he says. "Another part is something more frivolous and more fun-a joke in the middle of a prayer. If you can joke about something very important, you have achieved freedom." Free or not, Paris audiences enjoyed the joke, and so did the critics. "There is a little...
...often rightly so. Cocteau was a master of the bon mot and the telling aphorism, and these pages teem with samples. Perhaps the best is the anecdotal quip that American Composer Ned Rorem relates in his introduction. A literary monthly once posed a question to several writers: "If your house were burning down and you could take one thing, what would it be?" "I'd take the fire," answered Jean Cocteau...