Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Natural phenomena and man-made disturbances, in the form of rain and low flying airplanes, are not the perfect adjuncts to a dramatic performance. In spite of these hindrances, however, the Group 20 players' Androcles and the Lion came off smoothly and with great finesse...
...direction of Jerome Kilty is largely responsible for the clarity of the above point. He has paced the play well and mounted it beautifully. Each of the several enthusiasms of the Christians and the Romans comes through in perfect counterpoint to the others: the callous Caesar and the Captain who is in love stand apart from the brawling gladiators; the cowardly and debauched Christian, Spintho, pairs off against the iron Ferrovius as Ferrovius sets off the lovely, if confused, Lavinia. All revolves, however, around the gentle and humanitarian Androcles, and never more clearly than in the touching, though unspoken devotion...
...money Cradle Song is still a perfect gem of a play. The Sierras have used very few words from the dramatic alphabet, but with them they have managed to say a great many things about human nature. Indeed, the irrepressibility of human nature--of personality, of emotions, of love--seems to be the central theme of the play. The young girls in the convent have renounced worldly things, yet within the limits of monastic walls and rules their youthfulness and vitality burst forth in many ways--in girlish giggling, in writing poems, in squabbling with the other nuns. Most important...
...drastic if Jordan misbehaved. B-G had shaken a Bible under Burns's nose and quoted Deuteronomy to him: "Thou shall not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small; thou shalt not have in thy house divers measures, a great and a small; a perfect and just weight shalt thou have; a perfect and just measure...
...that it had sacrificed its intellectual content. He set up N.Y.U.'s Center for Human Relations Studies and its Center for Community and Field Services, stumped the country for a school that would be merged with the community. "In this human-centered universe," said Melby, "there is no perfect hierarchy of truth, there are no criteria beyond the realm of experience . . . Anything to be learned must be lived . . . The building of a bridge may be more effective in teaching Johnny Jones to think than the study of Plato...