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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...saying degenerates in lesser moments into remarkably explicit single-entendre that is crude without being funny. Crudity seems, generally speaking, to be the defect inherent in Brecht's attempt to simplify life to the point where it can be described in his almost-allegorical terms. His characters are often lifeless stick-figures whose only identity is a label, and his political and social pronouncements are over-stated, over-emphasized, over-dramatized past the point of exasperation...
...always with Brecht, there is the sense of an original, individual talent, undiverted and uncompromising, stubbornly being true to itself. This sounds like a moral rather than an aesthetic virtue, but it insures that Puntila, though often repetitive and clumsy, sometimes even boring, is seldom commonplace...
...neither my friends nor I have ever been in any class where the discussion was voluntarily participated in by more than 50 per cent of the class. Throughout the article a great point is made of the freedom of, abundance of, and wide participation in class discussion. There is often excellent discussion in our classes, but I think that it has been over-emphasized in your article...
Riddle of Cruelty. If war was agony to Gray, it was often a lark to Army Historian Love. War Is a Private Affair would make light reading for a bus ride to an induction center. Yet Love, like Gray, has a serious theory about men at war: "A man may deliver his body to the authorities, but he still maintains a will and a life of his own. In most cases he fits his private interest into the world in which he finds himself, but he does not give it up." To prove his point, Love tells ten stories...
Momentum is a vital factor in any track meet. Often a smashing or unexpected individual victory early in the meet will inspire an entire team and start it on its way to an over-whelming triumph. Such was the case last Saturday in New Haven, where a fired-up Bulldog squad whipped the Crimson varsity by 24 points...