Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Undoubtedly a major feature of the current quest for culture is a desire, heavy with overtones of both social snobbery and cultural inferiority, to "understand" what art is all about. Courses telling a person how to look at a piece of art or records explaining what it is that the hearer is hearing continue to attract large audiences and fat profits. "I want to learn to appreciate art," is a common pronouncement of anxious masses fearful whether they are not "complete" persons until they do. It is such a context that gives so great importance to the methods and approach...
Students in all three fields share an integrated curriculum for part of the first year in an effort to demonstrate the close inter-connection of the practice of architecture with civic and social problems, and of city planning with aesthetic design. Indeed the separation into distinct departments is a reflection of the high specialization in civic design in this country; in many foreign countries the distinction between architect and urbanist is considered artificial and dangerous in its encouragement of an overly technical and mechanical approach--planners computing the incremental cost of the necessary cubic feet of air per average inhabitant...
Head coach John M. Yovicsin, chairman of the group this year, will be host of the business-social affair at the Harvard Club of Boston, where the head coaches will discuss matters pertinent to Ivy football. A special guest will be Asa S. Bushnell, commissioner of the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference, who will speak on officiating in college football...
Wilder took much less of a commercial chance in signing up Marilyn Monroe for her first role in two years. In Some Like It Hot, she proves what the psychiatrists, the social critics and press agents have been saying throughout the lengthy hiatus: she qualifies as one of the remarkable public personalities of the day. Her talent, as revealed in the film, lies in an ability to say every line as a double entendre-meanings that are not smutty because the listener thinks of both of them simultaneously. Her presence is like the telling of a dirty joke whose punch...
Departing from the experimentalism of Pirandello and the social satire of Wilde, Repertory Boston has added a competent adaptation of Graham Greene's The Power and the Glory to its collection. The addition is a fine one: this stage version of one of the better recent novels stimulates thought, and receives, under Stephen Aaron's direction, a careful and well-paced performance...