Word: personal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hero plot he borrowed from elsewhere. His chief achievement in the play are precisely those things he had to invent himself: the witty verbal skirmishing between Beatrice and Benedick, and the portrait of bureaucratic officialdom represented by the malapropistic Dogberry and his sorry crew. (Shaw is about the only person who has denied the wit of the high comedy, perhaps because Beatrice and Benedick so closely resemble some of the most famous characters in Shaw's own plays...
...emission of loud and raucous noise has long been considered conduct sufficient to constitute disturbing the peace. Proof of commission of the crime is sufficient if the acts are of such a nature as tend to annoy good citizens and do in fact annoy any one person present," Cronin's opinion stated...
Today, July 3, Harvard Union Dining Hall, 8:30-12 midnight, featuring THE PROPHETS and refreshments. Admission: $1 per person plus proof of Harvard student status...
...bodies and smashed cars a mood of tragedy, is ignored by the motorists who drive into the distance. The scene is a brilliant metaphor for bourgeois social relations--the stopped motorists, though unwilling to take any action (collective or individual) about their total situation, react violently when any single person tries to get ahead of them. The central fact is their enmity to each other, realized both in their actions and in the blaring horns that gives the situation its proper background...
This particular session appears to have been rather unfruitful. After issuing their opening statements, it seems there was no negotiation by the parties involved. The person who gave the American press conference was a guy named Harold Kaplan. He was very clear and humorous and he and the reporters enjoyed kidding around with each other. After pointing out that the negotiations were at a stands-still, there did not seem to be much else...