Word: tutored
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...FREEDOM IS TO man as water is to fish," declares one of the characters in Bertolt Brecht's The Tutor. In the play, freedom is metaphorically equal to sexual license, so when the lecherous tutor castrates himself, Brecht's message is clear; this misguided soul, in his anxiousness to retain his livelihood, has performed an unnatural act, just like the German intellectuals who kowtowed to Hitler. Lest we construe Brecht's meaning too narrowly, however, he reminds us, in a line emblazoned on the set, that his aim is "to illumine all our sorry state, not only that of Germany...
Last year this policy resulted in the performance of such gems as More Stately Mansions, probably the worst play Eugene O'Neill ever wrote, and Ibsen's four-hour monstrosity Peer Gynt, which lost half its audience at intermission. The Tutor, unfortunately, stands squarely in this venerable Loeb tradition, succeeding neither as allegory nor as entertainment...
...most violent these shores have seen. Some of the turmoil, necessary for protest, had a point. Much more of it was pointless. Vigilantism, lynching, I cruel and sadistic i punishments were -common on the frontier. Backwoods ruffi-i ans as described in the journal of a Virginia tutor commonly engaged in "Kicking, Scratching, Pinching, Biting, Butting, Tripping, Throttling, Gouging, Cursing, Dismembering." Ratting and cockfighting were common diversions...
...Tutor. The Loeb seems to be continuing this year its tradition of presenting relatively unknown plays by relatively well-known playwrights. This fall's first production is the East Coast premiere of The Tutor by Bertolt Brecht, author of The Three-Penny Opera and Mother Courage. It's a satiric parable of the moral collapse of the educational system in Nazi Germany; the tutor of the title goes around/seducing all his female students, with predictably disastrous consequences. The director is Jurgen Flimm from the Thalia Theater in Hamburg, Germany, and the play itself is based on an 18th century work...
What has been responsible for the sustained popularity of Ec 10? Karl E. Case, head tutor in Economics, attributes the course's consistently high enrollment to the "important" nature of its subject matter, and to "general confusion on the part of most people about the economy...