Word: viewpoint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ADAPTATION-NEXT. Elaine May, a corrosively perceptive satirist with a mean comic punch, is director of both of these humorous one-acters. Adaptation, which Miss May wrote as well, has the ironic viewpoint that life is a game played on the contestant. In Terrence McNally's Next, James Coco gives a fine performance as a potbellied, middle-aged businessman summoned for the draft through an obvious computer error...
...tone of Washington could change in subtle ways. For example, businessmen might expect to find it somewhat easier to articulate their aims and ideas to a Republican Administration. As Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans says: "Business will get no special favors, but it will get full consideration of its viewpoint...
Romney M. Moseley D-'71, spokesman for the black students, said the meeting was "the best thing that ever happened to the Harvard Divinity School." He said he was pleased that the committee members had come to a better understanding of the black viewpoint because of the meeting. The original report will be submitted to the Divinity School faculty tomorrow...
Astutely co-opting radical student demands, the Harvard faculty recently voted to take academic credit away from ROTC and to create an Afro-American studies program. Three courses that are essentially radical in viewpoint are now being taught with the approval of the faculty, some by section leaders who are self-styled Marxists...
Psychological Drama. Last week the Met gave its first performance of Merrill's new production of // Trovatore. Although critics have traditionally complained about the absurdity of the libretto, Merrill contends that Trovatore is "a psychological drama that must be seen from the viewpoint of Azucena, a demented woman whose entire life is focused on avenging her mother's death." Merrill therefore has placed his singers against scenery-designed by Attilio Colonnello-that he describes as "consciously bizarre and unreal, to set off the singers as real people...