Word: particularity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During this period, American premieres of many French and German plays took place at Harvard, and the Stadium was frequently utilized when a particularly grandiose production, such as "Agamemnon," was projected. At the same time dramatic activities were springing into existence that were not viewed so placidly by the University. In particular, one George Pierce Baker, a professor of English, was showing remarkable talent for teaching the theatre--playwrighting, set-designing, direction, and so forth. His English 47, later known as the '47 Workshop, produced plays by students, among whom can be listed Eugene O'Neill, Philip Barry...
...language is for. And unless he goes on to higher courses--which he rarely does--he will have to find out on his own. Most other departments try to give their beginners a rough idea, at least, of the importance of their field as a whole, and how a particular course fits into it. But in the language program, a student plunges immediately into the mechanics of memorizing technical details. He reads Voltaire for exercise in reading French, and for little else. In this way, he loses sight of language as a means by which he can discover another culture...
...individual scholar's thin a 300-mile radins of Boston, toward Harvard which he meets almost entirely upon the particular and economic environment of his iding so close to the University of its activities to of a general misconception...
Lesson for France. The move was well timed. It came when Italy had surpluses for export (olive oil, wines, glassware). By reducing the cost of Italian products (in terms of other currencies) the government put Italian business in a position where it could sell to the world, and in particular...
...literary grimaces would be made ridiculous by the least suggestion of mugging by the actors. The producers of Nickleby have permitted Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Dame Sybil Thorndike, Stanley Holloway & Co. to tear into their meaty parts with about as much finesse as a pack of jackals. Still, this particular melodrama-which intersperses the quarrels between a vicious uncle and his virtuous nephew with a savage attack on the schools of Dickens' day -scarcely deserves better treatment...