Word: seenes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before this year, the University had simply seen no evil and heard no evil. But this year it opened its eyes and ears and did something-or perhaps just put on a show of doing something. Why it did is hard...
Before this year, the University had simply seen no evil and heard no evil. But this year it opened its eyes and ears and did something--or perhaps just put on a show of doing something. Why it did is hard...
...senior adviser. The adviser shook them from their sleep the next morning and grilled them on their activities at an M.I.T. pot party the night before. The students were badly shaken by the third-degree treatment, but the Ad Board took no action against them. No one had actually seen them smoking...
This can be most readily seen in the phenomenon of Harvard musical stage productions. Since Cosi fantutte at Leverett two years ago, there has been a steady escalation in the size and difficulty of productions. Last year there were productions of Stravinsky's L'Histoire du Soldat. Mozart's Don Giovanni and Britten's The Turn of the Screw: this year it was hard to decide whether to be more impressed by Leverett's production of The Marriage of Figaro or the Bach Society-Music Club concert performance of Fidelio. The more ambitions these projects become, the more time, money...
...confusion is understandable in a decade which has seen theatrical fashions vary more radically than the hemline. As soon as one catch-all grouping of dramatic trends has gained popular acceptance, another has come charging out of Europe to overtake it: Theatre of Alienation, Theatre of the Absurd, Theatre of Menace, Theatre of Cruelty, Theatre of Fact.... The list promises to be continued as long as publishers find it convenient to anthologize...