Word: myths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most of the many casual rumors circulating about the course are more myth than reality. All applicants have heard stories about the dangers involved in taking the class, so of course they tend to latch on to the incidents of aggression when they arise as proof that their fears were justified. As one section leader in the course commented, "most of the people who are afraid of ending up 'casualties' of Soc Rel 120, are usually those who are most afraid of their own aggressive tendencies; they are more concerned with hurting someone and exposing themselves, than with being hurt...
...provided an environment in which not only can the art of opera flourish but opera's mystique as well. Neither really modern nor really traditional, neither daring nor conservative, the house spills over with the wealth and the glitter and the grand irrationalities of myth and legend that together form the compelling unreality of opera itself, a dream world of the Theater of the Surd...
Behind that myth is a backstage world that matches the dream in technological terms. It is a world within worlds, a vast labyrinth of shops-carpentry, electrical, wig, prop, tailor, paint-two ballet studios, 20 rehearsal rooms (three of them as large as the main stage), 14 dressing rooms for principal singers, and hangar-sized chambers capable of storing the sets for all 23 of the Met's productions this season. For the singers, accustomed to the Stygian confines of the old Met, it was like being turned loose in Wyoming; so many of them got lost...
Crazy Quilt. Henry (Tom Rosqui) is a realist. "He knows," says the narrator (Burgess Meredith), "that God is dead, that innocence is a fraud and guilt a disease, happiness a myth and despair a pose. And that vice is no more interesting than virtue." Henry works as a termite exterminator and looks like a large unshaven blur. Lorabelle (Ina Mela) is an idealist. "She believes in everything. In Providence and butterflies, romance and statuary." She plays all day long, sniffing flowers and feeding ducks, and looks like the dew on the wings of a wish...