Word: pointlessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fighter Through the Mouth. The novels are almost naive in their simplicity. The Beach is an incident involving the tug of war between the sexes in a pointless marriage. Two seemingly compatible people are brought down by a typical Pavese monster: ennui. Not much here, but short and clean; no wasted words. The House on the Hill has bigger aims. Pavese was an anti-Fascist who was put in prison by the Mussolini regime, and then exiled to Calabria. Actually, he failed to do much more than sympathize with those who risked their lives. He was a fighter through...
Senelick's general conception of course has weaknesses. It helplessly exposes poorly written roles, like that of Simeonov-Pischik, a rather pointless proverb-spouting neighbor played by Reggie Stuart, and Chekhov's occasional lapses of imagination. They can no longer hide behind the Slavic fog. But at the same time, the director's shaping of his Cherry Orchard makes the play funny, exciting, and intriguing as well as traditionally poignant. The play took just under three hours and you couldn't notice it, which even in the Moscow Art Theatre would be quite something...
...this year; students are always looking for new ideological styles, and it is easy--and sometimes justified--to leap onto anti-authoritarian bandwagons within the University. But to demand student control over all social regulations and discipline, the curriculum, educational innovations, admissions, and the promotion of Faculty, is absolutely pointless. Even if the majority of a students body were to prefer their energetic peers over administrators as the decision-makers, and even if these students were able to devote full time to the University's government, it is unrealistic to think of Harvard as a democracy for students...
...raise at Wayne State University. Political considerations also kept the University of Massachusetts from putting its new medical school on either its Amherst campus, where it would have complemented other departments, or in Boston, where it could have tied in with other strong med schools. In a pointless compromise, it will be located halfway between the two, at Worcester...
...Galbraith and Drew Pearson will publish their first novels; Galbraith's will deal with State Department misadventures in South America, Pearson's, naturally, with a venal U.S. Senator. The new Morris West is about the buildup of the Six Day War in Israel. Following the fashion of pointless pen names, Kingsley Amis calls himself Robert Markham as he takes over the James Bond industry with a suitably unlikely yarn about a convention of Iron Curtain bosses in Greece. Arthur Hailey seems to be starting a literary business too, by following his bestselling Hotel with a novel called Airport...