Word: unevennesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Killing Everybody is a fortunate fall from lofty disgust. Harris has captured the pathology of the present age with out gloating over it or surrendering to despair. His characters are victims, but they have shored large fragments of human vitality against their ruin. If Killing Everybody is uneven, it is also per meated by a compelling amalgam of rage and love...
...know the final outcome. Unfortunately, the Loeb production lacks even that tension. Part of the failure can be blamed on Brecht's dialogue, which has a stiffness that marks his characters as unreal figures, as mere vehicles for statements. To a large extent, however, the fault lies with the uneven acting. George Hamlin, as Galileo, has a powerful, expressive voice, but he seems to have trouble remembering his lines. Some of his slips and stammers fit in with the image of an absent-minded, introverted scientist, but too many of them are obvious mistakes. His daughter Virginia, who should earn...
Split between old film hands and old stage hands, the cast is uneven in performance. Making her Broadway debut as Mary's mother, Myrna Loy, 68, seemed apprehensive in her entrances and exits and confined her delivery to flat recitation. Also making her first Broadway appearance, Rhonda Fleming, 49, seemed to be posing for a camera rather than playing to an audience. Of the stage veterans, Dorothy Loudon and Mary Louise Wilson are tartly expert comediennes, and Jan Miner is wonderfully hilarious as a countess addicted to husbands (five) and alcohol (90-proof...
...interest in the open classroom, the flexible way of teaching that is sweeping the public schools. Usually, fixed rows of desks and fixed weekly lessons are abandoned. Children roam from one study project to another, theoretically following their native curiosity and learning at their own uneven rates. The new principles are reminiscent of John Dewey's progressive philosophy of 40 years ago. Open education, however, emphasizes new discoveries about how children learn, uses more teaching materials and gives the teacher a more difficult task-to know just when the child is ready for his next stage of development...
Nationally, most of the major private institutions are experiencing increases in applications. The picture at major public universities is more uneven. Applications are up 7 per cent at the University of Iowa and 12 per cent at the University of California at Berkeley, but down 10 per cent at the University of Ilinois's Urbana campus