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Martin expressed the hope that all future Gen Ed sections would meet on the new schedule. Although such a change would be "desirable," he added, it would certainly have to be determined by a Faculty vote and any final decision would rest on the success of the experimental sections this year...
...realized," said Richard Strauss of the Meisterwerk of his middle age, "that the opera would never have much success." He was speaking of Die Frau ohne Schatten (The Woman Without a Shadow), the huge complex of mythology and symbolism that he constructed with Librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal during World War I. Strauss guessed correctly: since its premiere in Vienna in 1919, the work has rarely been staged in Europe and never in the U.S. Last week Die Frau finally appeared on a U.S. stage in a San Francisco Opera production that made cheering audiences wonder where she had been...
...Oakland, 60 miles east of M.S.U.'s main East Lansing campus, crewcut Dean Robert Hoopes, 39, onetime Marine Corps aviator, laid out his goal: to teach the art of living as well as pure knowledge. Said he to M.S.U.Oakland's first 500 students (all freshmen): "What is success? What is good? What do I want? Where am I going? You are in college to seek answers to those questions, and the first thing to discover is that there are no pat answers...
...wake of the Russian moon triumph, U.S. spacemen had two failures and one success last week. A Jupiter rocket blew up, and a Thor Able navigation satellite failed to orbit. The bright spot was the last of the much-criticized Vanguards, which put a 50-lb. payload in a high orbit expected to last 30 years or more...
This C.D.F. season must, on the whole, be written down as a commendable success, far in excess of what could legitimately have been expected in such a short time and under such unpredictable circumstances. William Morris Hunt '36, the C.D.F.'s Executive Producer, has announced that 80,000 persons attended the summer's offerings. The major remaining problem for the new Theatre is its acoustics. During the summer several amplification arrangements were tried; the one used for Much Ado, the sole proscenium production, turned out to be the best. But the acoustics are still not wholly satisfactory; perhaps the solution...