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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...come up with a concise sampling of memorabilia would be cause for head scratching under nearly any circumstances. Yet "Introducing Harvard University" an exhibit opening this week in Tokyo's Isetan department store, will try-through a scant 1741tems-to portray one of the nation's oldest and most respected institutions to the Japanese...
Although the De Lumleys found no bones of those early cave dwellers, they did uncover indisputable signs of their presence: choppers made from pebbles, sharpened flints and bones, and even antlers that had been fashioned into tools. Says De Lumley: "The discovery of such pebble tools-man's oldest, most primitive tools-establishes for the first time the existence of a 'pebble culture' in Europe." He and his wife also discovered the teeth and bones of elephants, lions, panthers, bears, cheetahs, hyenas, wolves, porcupines, deer and antelope, rhinos, hippos, even seals and whales, and those animals...
Most of the methods owe a large debt to Alcoholics Anonymous, the oldest, the biggest (650,000 to 750,000 members) and still the most successful organization by far for helping alcoholics. "Until the researcher is able to demonstrate some better practical techniques, the A.A. approach continues to merit our admiration and endorsement," says Gottheil. And, write Sociologists Harrison Trice and Paul Roman: "Despite lay leadership, A.A. has apparently achieved a success rate that surpasses those of professional therapies...
...highly articulate world such as the world of theatre--where modern techniques of acting and staging have made communication between performers and audience almost limitless in possibilities--it is at once astonishing, and yet perfectly logical, that we should find a sudden revival of interest in one of the oldest spectacular arts in existence: The Art of Silence. This Art--called Mime--is as ancient as civilization, and yet is one of the least practiced and most difficult of dramatic forms. It has always had its interpreters, but since the days of the pantomimists of the Commedia dell'Arte...
...human being in its most secret yearnings. By identifying itself with the elements which surround us, the art of the mime makes visible the invisible and concrete the abstract." Halfway between dancing and the theater, mime is an art of illusion relying on Man's fundamental and oldest method of communication. The raw material used--the human being himself--is never confined by objects and leaps speechlessly over the wall of language, the deceptions of words. Reaching out towards an all-embracing definition of the human being, mime is universal, the art which speaks to and for Everyman...