Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There are planning experts and analysts in the Design School and the Social Relations Department who have expressed willingness to sponsor projects and give advice--if they are asked. Thus far, they have not even been encouraged. The Design School study this fall often found that necessary information was either non-existent, not available to the public, or too expensive to gather. Such an attitude towards research is not likely to bring more and better planning...
Susan B. Anthony, who lived from 1820 to 1906, pushed political and social reform; Gertrude S.'s reform was artistic. Though Gertrude led the deflation of 19th century romanticism, and Susan B. lived it, they fought essentially similar enemies. To Gertrude, the commonplace was not necessarily banal; it had, rather, a universality which made it significant. Gertrude S.'s favorite course at Radcliffe, in those calm pre-General Education days, was in cloud formations. ("San Francisco and the Rhone Valley have the nicest clouds...
...Mother of Us All is likened by its creators to a pageant of the passing 19th century. Across the stage in its course pass Daniel Webster, Andrew Johnson, Thaddeus Stevens, Anthony Comstock, Lillian Russell and Ulysses S. Grant. "The costumes," the authors specify, "should sharply exemplify regions, decades, and social circumstances. The variety of these against a more generalized historical background should offer a spectacle no more anachronistic than that suggested to the mind by the perusal of a volume of old photographs...
Last week the trustees of Dartmouth College announced that a special building committee, headed by Nelson Rockefeller, '30, will plan and raise money for a combined social and art center to be named after President Emeritus Ernest Martin Sopkins. Among the new center's facilities: a 450-seat theater, a 900-seat auditorium, galleries, studios and workshops for painting, music, printmaking, sculpture and woodworking, all designed "to encourage campus-wide participation in both the doing and the viewing of these arts as a part of the daily life of a liberally educated person...
Trying Spectacle. King Gustaf VI Adolf, Queen Louise, and a dazzling audience of Sweden's artistic, social and political celebrities, including the whole diplomatic corps, packed the theater. They sat down to witness a trying spectacle, as demanding on the audience as on the cast. Long Day's is less a drama than a dramatized autobiography. Its four long acts, all in one grimy set, take 4½ hours to perform. There is no plot, no story, no anecdote, nothing to relieve the dark, brooding atmosphere of tragedy that stretches from early one morning in 1912 to late...