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...many different interests and too little guidance from the graduate student who taught the course. Even more disturbing. Marton has perceived little willingness on the part of professors or students to consider just why it is important to study East Asian subjects, Marton's own interest is an outgrowth of deeply emotional reflections on his combat experiences and he has found it frustrating that so many concentrators in the department seem to want "to hide in this classical oriental culture" and ignore present day realities...
...natural outgrowth of such a belief is the theory that trainers fix all the races so they can pick up big payoffs on their horses when they win. Beyer refutes Mr. D., and insures us that trainers are basically an honest group, not knowing any more than an astute handicapper about who is going to win a race...
...thieves when they made off with the head of a statue of St. Paul in a church he often visited. Hughes traced the head as far as a "respectable" art dealer in Basel, Switzerland, but it was never returned to the church. Such theft, in his view, is an outgrowth of "the stupendous hyping of art as a blue-chip investment." Not only has promotion made art a prime target for razor-wielding burglars, Hughes argues: "It has also made it impossible for most people under 35 to have an aesthetic experience without considering the price of the works they...
Someone asks whether the union is in part an outgrowth of the women's movement, since three-fourths of the group District 65 seeks to unionize are women. "No," Strunsky says. "We didn't grow out of a women's group...
Three Plays from The Towneley Cycle. These may be the best things playing all month for those with a serious, and especially an academic, interest in theater. The Towneley Cycle is one of those compendia of medieval religious plays halfway between ritual and modern drama. This production is the outgrowth of David Staines's English 211 and represents one of the few attempts to bring performing drama within Harvard's academic orbit. The English department should sit up and take note. Two of the three plays that make up the program were translated into modern English by students...