Word: objective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Callous disregard of undergraduate opinion has gone too far with the announcement that Kresge will be the only dining hall open this vacation. It's not that we object to the quality of the food--we've long since lost our taste for that. Nor is it that it's so far away, since exercise is probably good for us. It's just that we don't want to get beat up on the Weeks Bridge after dinner every night...
...factions, the rightist forces last week accused the pro-Communist Pathet Lao of launching yet another attack. Talks were under way aimed at arranging a conference this week between the faction leaders, namely Souvanna Phouma, his half brother Pathet Lao Leader Prince Souphanouvong, and Rightist General Phoumi Nosavan. The object would be to get the Pathet Lao back into the coalition government, which in effect they quit out of fear a year ago, by guaranteeing their leaders' safety in Vientiane should they choose to return. But there is faint expectation of agreement, even if the conference does materialize...
...Cavallini frescoes at Santa Cecilia. She had never seen them before and began at once to point out inequalities and different hands that must have taken part in the execution. The fault of teaching art history. The student is inclined to analyze and dissect the moment he encounters the object, instead of letting is soak into him as he gazes and looks, and dreams for hours together, the way I used to when young, and still should if I had youth's leisure. I recall writing in the same vein about the contemporary student's approach to literature...
...tone, for example--eventually become obtrusive. When he attempts satire, the element of fantasy that distinguishes his funniest passages becomes mere grotesqueness. On the other hand, his excesses of sentimentality are almost embarrassing; even readers who do not mind his beginning the novel on a snowy Christmas Eve may object to his ending it, beneath a haze of pity and brotherly love, in the same manner...
...matter of lighting. There is actually an invisible performer walking around the stage manipulating the bow tie. The invisibility is achieved through a stage-light trick known to conjurers since the darkest of the Dark Ages. Under properly angled lighting, a black object against a black backdrop cannot be seen by an audience. Developing its material on this simple principle, a Czechoslovak troupe known as the Black Theater of Prague has become internationally famous...