Word: vitale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bold and ingenious was the idea of compressing a week's theatre-going into two nights. But not altogether sound: in slashing two-thirds of what Shakespeare wrote, Welles ripped out much that was dull but more that was vital, either in itself or as connective tissue. Even so, were the chronicle plays concerned solely with martial and kingly events, their torso might provide a kind of splendid theatrical pageant. But the chronicle plays do not lend themselves to mere pageantry, for in addition to the huge comic figure of Falstaff, they contain scene after scene of intrigue, domestic...
Germany and Italy will not produce a war crisis this spring, Fritz Morstein Marx, assistant professor of Government, declared in an interview yesterday. Hitler and Mussolini are conscious of the fact that England and Franco will not sacrifice any of their vital interests...
...Since the Munich pact, French and British resistance has stiffened" Marx said. "I do not doubt that Germany realizes clearly that a serious move towards Objectives regarded as vital for France or Britain would make a second World War inevitable...
...faculty, of a professedly liberal institution, exhibits a homogeneity of sentiment grossly unrepresentative of the division of opinion in the community of scholarship or the community at large, a legitimate suspicion of bias is afforded. Within the social sciences in particular, the representation of those dissident opinions reflecting vital intellectual and political currents is the surest guarantee that instructors are being freely and impartially chosen. At Harvard in the past there has been a consistent over-representation of the conservative point of view, and we recommend that this be corrected...
...Exams cannot truly measure the tangible results of a man's knowledge or of his self development; his increasing curiosity, self reliance, and self expression are better indices of his progress. These are developed by informal discussion. Hence the figure of eleven students taking the Bliss exam is no vital index of their inspiration. We would learn something from a course in or a regimentation of the study of American Civilization; but can we afford to sacrifice our voluntary self education? Samuel S. Binnian...