Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Beatrice and Benedick, then, are far and away the most engrossing personages in the play. And even in productions in which the serious plot is tedious, it is essential that the man and woman who play this sharp-tongued pair be evenly matched--otherwise the result is fatally unbalanced...
...method). Individual alienation becomes the method of Breathless through a hero who conducts a very detached investigation of his surroundings. Weekend's subject is general alienation in a capitalist society, and its method is to follow characters through a bourgeois countryside. But these characters, being alienated themselves, have no serious moral responses to the terrible events they see. Consequently the film's meaning depends on the audience's reaction to these events and their condemnation of the characters for not reacting...
Anything else if self-indulgence, which is difficult to glorify in any case and particularly difficult to justify when the hero's grievances are temporary and external to the university. Society needs places for sensitization and places for serious academic study. But they can be separate places...
Given the relative invisibility of H-R students in the Summer School, the girl who came to Cambridge looking for a Crimson husband may eventually give up, shrug her shoulders, and head for Lamont. This, no doubt, is another factor pushing the Sum- mer School toward a more serious academic orientation...
Besides the normal Summer School courses, a number of special programs exist under the auspices of the School, and they too help to make the school more serious than it once was. The programs include...