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...blames this conditioning of women for much of their present situation in society. In her inaugural address in May 1960, Bunting spoke of not paying enough attention to women's education. "True, we all have theories but do we have valid findings? Or is it possible that we dodge this question too because its investigation demands decisions that we fear to face...
Some of Brustein's arguments against the Living Theatre, for instance, are valid. A theatre which rejects the traditions of the dramatic art in favor of a nebulous, ephemeral attempt to draw its audience into spur-of-the-moment participation is not creating art; whatever sort of internalized art the participants may think they feel, they have not, and can not, transfer it beyond themselves into any permanent form, and permanence is the soul of art. Yet the belittling manner in which Brustein talks about the Living Theatre and its directors, and for that matter about the Yale faculty...
...spatial innovations of Constructivism. A brick reproduction of Rodchenko's "Construction of Distance" (which is almost like a group of I beams constructed of single bricks) could have been simply set up. The show remains massive rather than spatial, but as an episode of history the show is valid...
...allowed his name to be put in nomination at the closed meeting only after checking with a messenger outside the caucus room to be certain that Russell was still alive. If the vote of Russell, who died less than four hours later (see story, page 19), had not been valid, Byrd would not have run. But once Byrd was nominated, a Kennedy supporter, knowing Byrd's nose-counting talents, gasped, "I'll be goddamned; he's got it." Actually, Byrd had in this instance miscounted; he won easily...
...regrettable that blacks must engage in verbal conflict in a predominately white communicative arena of this sort. However, Mr. Kilson's words of negative criticism demand a response lest they be accepted as valid...