Word: wente
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...left school, he could read Latin and Greek, French and German, and, as he observed with matter-of-fact pride, "I knew enough chemistry to take part in research, enough biology to do unaided research, and I had a fair knowledge of history and contemporary politics." Thus equipped, he went to New College, Oxford, started in mathematics, switched to "Greats" (classics and philosophy), and broke an oar in the college crew. Strong in mind and body, he entered the military in 1914, eventually to be praised by Marshal Haig as "the bravest and dirtiest officer in my army...
...humble Drosophila led Haldane to what may be considered the central drama of his life. He was one of the last of the hard-core Stalinists in the Western intellectual community-a genuine holdover from the liberal-Communist marriage of the '30s. During the Civil War, he went to Spain as to a shrine. He closed his eyes to the horrors of Stalin's purges, shrugged off the Hitler-Stalin pact. Unused to the logic of the world, he failed to draw the conclusions that occurred to less talented men as a result of these debacles...
...went the rave that was never written. But the characters and compliments are real enough. The audience at a Harvard show is pretty unaware of techies--the backstage and front office people who organize, frame and run a production--except as names on the right hand side of a program. But from the inside they seem pretty significant, much more so than in professional theatre...
Working fairly consistently with Mayer at Agassiz both summer and winter, Cutler feels he and others of the group developed artistically by building on what went before; each set was an opportunity to make a "new space" in that loveable but limited theatre. From his Plebians Rehearse the Uprising (May, 1967) to his tow-storied Midsummer Night's Dream (July, 1968) set ("a poor man's architecture, not a framework"), Cutler has been highly conscious of progression within the company...
...person had the keys to the Loeb, another to Grant-in-Aid storage, and they went around raiding flats for the set. Darwall came with paints; and after the set was done and lit, they formed the society. As the only girl present, Miss Pilz Couldn't vote...