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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great virtue of Harvard theater is the versatility and wide range which the present fluid situation makes possible. The reason for the vast number and variety of the productions Mr. Titcomb enumerates is the freedom from imposed standards of any sort which the Harvard director now enjoys. It is felt by many that the advent of concentration in drama together with strong faculty supervision in the new theater will result in the loss of this freedom. This is why the request for continued student autonomy in productions, so churlishly and peremptorily rejected by the Faculty Committee For The New Theatre...
...toward co-education has been taken with the creation of a joint political studies center by Amherst and Mount Holyoke, a step which may soothe the unhappy girl who stated that "one thing that any woman's college misses in trying to make the whole woman is men." At present the group swaps faculties, Gettell noted, and may at some time move toward joint departments...
Classifying the present college generation as silent, apathetic, conformist, or security-minded is the most chic of today's intellectual fashions. Now, Richard Frede, a Yale graduate of about four years back, has contributed as his first novel an expose dissection of what he terms our "IBM generation...
Although frequent use of capitals of express The Big Ideas is annoying and the prose often cumbersome, the primary fault of the book is its over-simplification. To present the character of Bogard, Frede resorts to a modern-day equivalent of good and bad angels. Bogard's thoughts are conveyed through two of his mental creations named Slide Rule and The Third Person. Calculation and commitment contend for the sould of the present generation...
Frede's diagnosis may be accurate for a segment of the present college generation, but it is certainly to glib. Bogard suggests that "we've been taught a helluva lot of Don'ts and almost no Do's." causes of apathy are much deeper and more complex than Frede's closing explanation suggests. In sum, the author fails to convince the reader that he is capable of more than a tabloid presentation of character or idea...