Word: performance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suggestion, Alfred said, would be to center the year-long course around a major play, and to study some of the minor dramas that led up to it historically. In weekly workshops students could perform scenes of the major play, and wind up the course with a complete production...
...chance to ask questions about sexual problems before the pressures and opportunities of being "college men" force them into hurried, ignorant, and often harmful experiences. Given the abysmal sex education offered by most secondary schools, and the inability of most parents to provide adequate information, the University could perform a valuable service with such meetings. To be successful they would require both a compassionate doctor and a mature group of students. Neither ingredient is by any means assured, but the idea is worth an experiment...
Bypassing for a moment the observation that Pearl Primus, a big-bodied, strong, supple woman, is a perfectly lovely dancer, I must also note that her performance last night was just the slightest bit disappointing. Her demonstration class at Radcliffe yesterday afternoon, by comparison, was continuously compelling and satisfying; she seemed more at case, more smiling, more dignified, as she began to explain African dancing. Perhaps an audience of dancers is inherently more open to inspiration; and, of course, it is more thrilling to see a class of perhaps 75 dancers attempt a warrior-dance or a festal dance than...
...mistake the simplicity of this statement for naivite, and this is evidently what reviewer Boorstin did. In fact, President Pusey's view of education is both sophisticated and complex: he realizes the crucial peripheral tasks that a university must perform, but he does not confuse peripheral task with what he conceives of as purpose. After a great deal of agonizing--evident in almost every speech--he has concluded that knowledge for the sake of knowledge is still central to education, and that the university exists in order to support the community that nurtures...
...what first called the university into existence, nor can it in my judgement ever safely be thought to provide the sum or substance of its aim.... A university was, and is, first of all an association of scholars. It is their essential function not to produce goods or perform practical services, but simply to keep a life of the mind vigorous and functioning among...