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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...special note should be inserted concerning Cunningham's use of the prime dance sin--ugliness. Ugliness often figures in the movements: it is part of experience. The technical competence of this troupe is unsurpassed, hence their awkwardnesses are calculated. They do not want to float like swans or swing like Gower Champion. Cunningham's goal is creating new qualities of experience for his dancers and audiences. His concerts are magnificent events not to be missed...

Author: By Maeve Kinkead, | Title: Merce Cunningham & Dance Company | 5/29/1968 | See Source »

...first time the use of drugs, mostly marijuana, became significantly widespread among students at Exeter and Andover in the last two years. Exeter and Andover are very similar schools started one year apart by a pair of brothers about 200 years ago. They have gratefully less tradition than an institution like Harvard; they pride themselves on turning out lots of people who later turn up in key positions in the American business, educational, and governmental establishment; and they still drastically restrict the activities of their students eight months of the year because that is the system that has worked...

Author: By Evan Vaughan, | Title: Notes From the Prep School Underground: Drugs and Love Ethic at Exeter, Andover | 5/29/1968 | See Source »

...biggest bust was this year. And it's the one that hinted to the administration that there is a significant amount of drugs on its campus. In explaining that four people were expelled for use of marijuana in this incident, Exeter's Dean Robert Kessler said, "You never find all those who are doing...

Author: By Evan Vaughan, | Title: Notes From the Prep School Underground: Drugs and Love Ethic at Exeter, Andover | 5/29/1968 | See Source »

Most students take their drugs out across the playing fields near the Exeter River by a tree made famous in John Knowles' novel, A Separate Peace. They use little acid, and some amphetamines. They never use speed to study for exams. They use it for escape

Author: By Evan Vaughan, | Title: Notes From the Prep School Underground: Drugs and Love Ethic at Exeter, Andover | 5/29/1968 | See Source »

...love ethic" is as good a phrase as any for the air of optimism and ease that has appeared on the Andover campus in this spring. Those who use drugs do so in their rooms. The administration will kick them out if they're caught. But the school isn't trying to catch them as they are at Exeter...

Author: By Evan Vaughan, | Title: Notes From the Prep School Underground: Drugs and Love Ethic at Exeter, Andover | 5/29/1968 | See Source »

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