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This last technique reaches its high point in the most brilliantly written portion of the book, a conclusion written as a dialogue between Foucault the author and Foucault the self-critic. Here Foucault rejects the recurrent attempts to box him as a structuralist and denies any assertion that archaeology is a new "science." But the instinctive question of the partisan of traditional history, "But why do things change?" is not even raised. It would not satisfy such a critic to answer that the complexity of this question lies outside the scope of Foucault's inquiry, or that it belongs...
...workshop activities are as much anthropologic as choreographic. Influenced by the "structuralist" ideas of Claude Levi-Strauss, Halprin believes that a society's myths, or basic beliefs, are as fundamental to its form as its language. Even modern men are driven by such primal instincts as incest, murder, sacrifice and cannibalism, although such drives are almost entirely submerged by the character of urban life. By encouraging her audiences to act out their anxieties in terms of free-moving myths, Halprin is providing not only a therapeutic outlet but an artistic one as well. "The central idea of every evening...
...structuralist theories which maintained that general prosperity would do little good for many categories of workers because they were unfit to hold jobs in the rapidly advancing technology, can now be dismissed, at least in their extreme forms. Every category of unemployment has responded to prosperity and will continue to do so. But now that that battle has been won and the general slack in the economy virtually eliminated, it becomes even more urgent to look more closely at the unemployment which remains even in good times. So let me talk today not about the common economic theme...
Audiences at the world première of his 33rd full-length play in Manhattan last week found that a half century had not improved Bernard Shaw as a dramatic structuralist. Loyal Shavians were quite prepared for that, since their idol has never wasted much time on the packaging of his products. What they were not prepared for was the woefully stale and shopworn condition of the product itself...
Since the War, since the appointment of suave, handsome, slightly dull Livingston Farrand as president, Cornell vitality has ebbed. What new ideas American education has today come elsewhere than from Cornell. Cornell's great scientists have gone. One of the last was famed "structuralist," psychologist, Edward Bradford Titchener (died 1927). Students from Europe, the Orient, the 48 States, no longer seek Cornell. Now many of those from outside New York State come as sons of loyal old graduates. Hiram Sibley's grandson is a Harvard sophomore. Cornell never drew young socialites from smart Eastern schools. Once...