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...going to come up with the answers to these problems in their spare time is at best an unrealistic expectation, and at worst, a surrender to the programming of Princeton's Alumni Inertial Guidance System, which keeps us safely on course and out of harm's way--the twentieth century...
...tried to change the system this year took on a mammoth task. Because of new admissions policies and a zephyr of twentieth century elagitarianism, they thought that they stood a chance. But the monolith was immobile, and the Gentlemanly Revolt wouldn't work. The attitudes of the students, the administration, the aulmni were not easy to change...
...certain type of life. The Man of Mode is very much of its age, not for all time. In this limp-wrist world, the winners win by virtue of their wit, and the losers lose for having the bad taste to display jealously -- a situation which confuses our twentieth-century sympathies. Furthermore, Etherege wrote the play to please an ingrown audience -- it would recognize friends and celebrities among the characters. If the playwright had been present last night he would no doubt have gone around whispering, "You had to be there. It's not nearly as funny as it used...
...noise is being made by the clatter of rising new arts centers. That does not mean, however, that the arts themselves are in step with construction or that audiences are in step with the arts. According to a massive three-year study published last week by the Twentieth Century Fund,* professional performances and audiences constitute a woefully weak link in the chain reaction. Items...
...should-or will-provide the support? The authors themselves do not offer any substantive recommendation beyond pointing out that governments at all levels provide less than 4% in the way of subsidies; the rest is contributed by corporate and private philanthropy. In a foreword to the report, Twentieth Century Fund Director August Heckscher reasons that the annual federal appropriations for the arts-$8.5 million-is "disproportionately low, will be quite hopelessly inadequate if it is not at least doubled within the next five years...