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...Andersonville Trial. Playwright Saul Levitt and Director Jése Ferrer recreate the post-Civil War trial of the Confederate officer who ran the notorious prison camp at Andersonville, Ga. Although damagingly forced and ultimately unsatisfying, the moral battle in the courtroom has both bursts of eloquence and bouts of theater...
...proud of the 2,000 subscribers, such as the Hoosier farmer, who take the magazine because they like to read Latin, not because they have to. He tries to make each issue lively rather than pedantic. The jokes tend to be lame: Primus: "Noah Webster optime Anglice locutus est." Se-cundus: "Ego quoque possem, si meum proprium dictionarium scripsissem."* But the fiction sometimes has its excitement, e.g., a recent story entitled Cadaver Absens (The Missing Corpse). Although many prospective advertisers (books, crayons, even liquor) have expressed interest, Warsley has held to a no-advertising policy; he thinks that ads might...
...Pathos and not tragedy is the motif of our se sefl-consciousness," the Rev. Dr. Joseph Sittler concluded last night. Exploring "The Context of Confirmation" in his third Noble Lecture, Sittler proposed that the Christian story calls for an "organic" human response "as rich, as supple and as unpredictable as the story itself...
...compromise is possible. I don't have to cut all your throats; I only need to cut a half of your throat.' This is the kind of thing into which we are being led by the incredible view that any sort of negotiation is good per se." In only one area, said Acheson, can negotiation really benefit the West: hardheaded discussion of disarmament that aims toward shortening the offensive "reach," both nuclear and conventional, of the nations...
Repetition forms the key to the oral-aural method, the new and better way to teach foreign languages which Harvard has finally adopted. Instead of studying grammar per se, students pick up grammar implicitly; instead of learning rules for pronunciation, they first learn to say many words and later discover the rules...