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Meantime, legislators have grown reluctant to bail out campuses with more tax money. Irked voters have demoted academe from its once-exalted place in the U.S. pantheon. Some view colleges as subversive sanctuaries-or perhaps sanatoriums-for a privileged caste of professors and long-haired scoffers at cherished values. Worse, a college education no longer guarantees a job, or even the ability to keep abreast of rapid technological changes...
Christian describes the three gods in the Pantheon of his Church, the "three great gods of the universe," as separate and very distinct deities...
Bertolt Brecht: Collected Plays, Vol. 1 Pantheon...
...PANTHEON edition containing the first four long plays and five one-act plays, is the first volume of a projected complete English edition of all of Brecht's writings. It is based on the German Gesammelte Worke of Brecht, and contains variant readings for all the plays, as well as the author's notes on the performance, conception, and meaning of each play. The plays have been translated by a number of people, and the quality of the translations is vastly uneven. William Smith and Ralph Manheim, who translated Baal, Drums in the Night, and The Life of Edward...
...other translation in this volume, particularly those of the one-act plays, are entirely worth reading. While maintaining fidelity to the original, they have been put into a relatively artful English, one which is both readable and, I think, performable. In any case, Pantheon is to be congratulated for finally undertaking to produce a complete critical edition of Brecht, something this country has been lacking for years...