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Western Massachusetts where the town is located (it is almost on the Massachusetts New York border) is very much different from the eastern part of the state. There is less congestion: fewer and smaller cities and towns. The Berkshire hills, winding northwestward across the section, are sharply-peaked and heavily forested-more majestic than their eastern counterparts. Farms dot the landscape, and, though it is Massachusetts, one firmly believes that cows outnumber humans...
M.I.T. President Howard W. Johnson said Wednesday that it, is uncertain whether enough money can be found to implement the changes in the labs; if sufficient funds are not available, he said, M.I.T. may have to sever completely its ties with the labs. A large part of the funds for the present research work is supplied by the Defense Department...
...harder to be a culture hero these days than it used to be. The functioning of our prime communications media has grown to be too swift. The hero in our own culture is doomed to be part of his own audience; and if he finds himself applauding along with the masses, his heroic stature crumbles...
Albert sees this sort of approach to the theater as part of a fight everywhere for humanness. He sees what he does as linked with the sexual revolution, radical polities and drugs. He finds working in Cambridge important because the city represents the very rationality that is choking us. "What's happening on stage must always be alive. That's why we don't have rehearsals anymore. The show is a dramatic moment, whose components are actors and an audience involved in time and space by what happens on stage. When an improvisation goes badly, the audience feels as badly...
HOUSE ON FIRE by Arch Oboler. 249 pages. 8arfholomew. $5.95. A radio and film veteran, the author has produced a nasty little hybrid-part melodrama about two juvenile murderers, part philosophical twaddle about whether God is dead, blind or just out to lunch...