Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...continue to have an essentially free and classless this country, we must proceed from the premise that there are no educational privileges. We must endeavor to sort out at each stage in the educational process those boys and girls who can profit from one type of education, and those who can profit by another. There must be a variety of educational channels leading towards different walks to life. And as far as possible there should be no hierarchy of education disciplines; no one channel should have a social standing above the other...
President Conant believes that "we must endeavor to sort out at each stage in the educational process those boys and girls who can profit from one type of education, and those who can profit by another. There must be a variety for educational channels leading towards different walks in life. And as far as possible there should be no hierarchy of educational disciplines; no one channel should have a social standing above another...
Thursday night the repertory returned to the stage world of Boston. For the opening of "Our Town" was the coming-of-age of the New England Repertory company, which after three years of up-hill struggle has realized its ambition of a permanent playhouse for its list names of eleven authors, among whom are O'Neill, Anderson, Barrie, Shakespeare . . . and Wilder...
Thonnton Wilder's informal, unconventional "Our Town" is particularly adapted to the atmosphere of the remodeled old Barn Theatre. The simplicity of the play fits the simplicity of the Playhouse. There is no scenery except two arched trellises, pushed onto the stage as director Edwin Burr Pettet said, "for those who think they have to have scenery." A few chairs, two tables, a couple of ladders and a board are the frugal furnishings, images created in the minds of the audience by Mr. Petter's homely descriptions and the pantomime of the rest of the cast build the streets, houses...
...born, flourishes, wanes, dies, like plants and animals. As organisms, cultures have a uniform morphology, except where accident intrudes (as in the ruin of Aztec culture by a band of adventurers). Lifetime of a culture is about 1,500 years. Western culture of 1940 is at about the same stage of its life cycle as the Egyptian of 1600 B.C., Chinese of 250 B.C., Classical of 100 B.C. For proof Spengler waved his learned pointer at such diverse phenomena as Karnak's temples, Mozart quartets, Chinese gardening, Marxism, Aztec city planning, jazz, Greek vases, Napoleon, Russian grammar...