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...administrative field, the committee's most constructive--though hardly surprising--proposal is the elimination of the separate Radcliffe graduate school and the admission of women to the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Noting, however, that "It is paradoxical that when President Eliot championed coordination in 1893, he favored joint instruction only at the graduate level," the committee seems to favor continuing the paradox. Its recommendation that Harvard and Radcliffe remain separate at the College level is based on the superficial arguments that woman students might suffer from lack of attention and that educational experiments might be severely curtailed...
...result, to some, was paradox--a paradox which still survives even in the physical presence of the superb theater Hugh Stubbins has designed had the gift of the Loebs has constructed. Indeed, the completion of the theater has, if anything, increased the doubts. To those who once asked new drama could be taught if there has to be no one to teach it, there are new added those who wish to be told new drama can be learned in anything as perfect as that! They can understand a man knocking sense into its own head by hammering a stage together...
Despite all the babies born during the 1950s, the U.S. is actually less densely populated today than it was a decade ago. The average population density is 50.4 people per sq. mi. as against 50.7 in 1950. Reason for this paradox, reported last week by the Census Bureau: when sparsely populated Alaska became a state, the U.S. added 2½ sq. mi. of territory for every Alaskan...
...gougings are carefully planned, with the artist, rather than the painting, at the controls. Yet the stern discipline deprives the paintings of warmth, and in the end, they seem little more than exercises repeated over and over again. For so sunny and passionate a land, Spain has produced a paradox: a comparatively youthful generation of artists whose experiments add up to monotony. The obsessive colors they all use-black and white, dull greys, somber browns, putty greens-are the colors of joylessness...
...these, there has been and will be a spate of other Hamlets. For Hamlet and Shakespeare's other great characters are so rich in possible meanings because they are fashioned on the essentially human principle of both/and rather than either/or. Hamlet is more than the sum of his paradoxes; he is the paradox of man seen whole. All one knows for certain is that being Hamlet is Hamlet's tragedy-as being himself is everyman...