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Making up for her neglect of A'ida, Maggie Webster spent hours with score and libretto, and decided that there was more to it than mere heart-warming and blood-tingling melodrama-more than "Love, Jealousy and Sacrifice in capital letters." As in Don Carlo, she found in Aïda the "tragedy of individuals caught up in a conflict with the dictates of an autocracy." She also decided to start fresh with her stage direction, and not delve into the "encrustations of tradition...
...Superstition No. 2-the popular neglect of Western culture's Christian basis -he answers: "Public education . . . in trying to be nonsectarian, quickly became nonChristian, and so in total impact often anti-religious . . . The thinking of the Christian philosophers, being commonly uncredited to them, is diffused into general overtones, and so is neither rightly appreciated nor soundly criticized . . . It is as if the chemist were forbidden to include in his course outline any reference to the salts, or the botanist were required to be completely silent about conifers...
...resign if elected to the City Council. Three are state representatives who will not be through at the State House for at least a year. The other two are in state-appointed jobs, with presumably indefinite tenure. It is possible that these five, if elected today, will have to neglect at least one of the tasks given them by the voters, if not both...
Lincoln Steffens, disillusioned after years of muckraking, once remarked that "misgovernment of the American people is misgovernment by the American people. The typical citizen is too busy to take a serious interest in politics, and when his neglect has permitted bad government to go so far that he can be stirred to action, he is unhappy, and he looks around for a cure that will be quick. The patent remedy is quack...
...residents of 20 Walker Street, we were somewhat amazed to find the word "squalid" used in your editorial last Monday. Our living conditions are not "dirty through neglect" or "filthy." (Webster's definition of squalid). On the contrary, we are sure that we have some of the most attractive rooms the college has to offer. Some of them have been repainted and re-wallpapered this year. New carpeting has been put on the stairs. The entire exterior of the building has been repainted, and an improved telephone system is soon to be installed. Some of the emergency doubles here...