Word: nones
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ferris' program was well-chosen and balanced, although none of the carols was particularly striking. There was enough variety in the material to display the Choir's flexibility and fine tone, as well as its more-than-adequate intonation. Credit for the excellent balance must go to the director, whose attention to the niceties of choral singing, such as elegant diction, indicates his ability to maintain the high technical standards of the Harvard choral tradition. He favors rather dramatic changes of color and dynamics which may not please those accustomed to a simpler style, but which never suggest the theatrical...
Bury the Living. In strictly literary terms. Doctor Zhivago is an extraordinary novel, but it is not a great one. It is riddled by implausible coincidences, cluttered with distracting minor characters, shamelessly melodramatic. With the exception of Dr. Zhivago, none of the major characters are developed much beyond the point of abstraction. Even the doctor exists more as a luminous conscience than a physical presence; all the reader is ever told of his appearance is that he is tall and has "a snub nose and an unremarkable face." As for the novel's structure, it is like an endless...
Benjamin R. Neilson's direction of this gallimaufry brings out exactly the proper tone of amiable idiocy that is the most endearing feature of Gilbert's creatures. His comic business is consistently funny, with none of the sweaty laboriousness that so frequently characterizes comedy around here...
Machine Creation. Many of the speakers tackled the question: "What is intelligence?" None of them had a wholly satisfactory answer. Dr. Marvin L. Minsky of M.I.T. felt that the problem is unduly complicated by irrational human reverence for human intelligence. "We can often find simple machines," he said, "which exhibit performances that would be called intelligent if done by a man. We are, understandably, very reluctant to confer this dignity on an evidently simple machine...
Kazantzakis takes his hero far beyond the pagan world that Homer's knew. He confronts him with characters reminiscent of Buddha, Christ, Faust and Don Quixote so that Odysseus can try his own view of God and man against theirs. He agrees with none of them, thus underscoring Kazantzakis' belief that each man must make his own spiritual odyssey; no one else can make it for him, no ready-made belief can serve for each individual. The search is one for freedom-freedom from the demands of Odysseus' heart and mind. Kazantzakis seems to say: not until...