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...pain got better. The patient switched again-to primitivism. Dr. Bontzolakis was delighted. But two years later the man returned in worse shape than before, with blood pressure up again. What had happened? He had backslid through expressionism to abstractions, had quit his medicine, and was painting wilder canvases than ever...
Edward S. Stewart '59 has been awarded first prize in the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra's composition contest. His "Variations on a Melody" was the winning entry, while William D. Wilder, Jr. '61 earned Honorable Mention with "A Concerto for Orchestra...
...wide variety of shapes and textures demonstrated that modern potters have learned from modern art to create a host of effects the ancients never tried. Yet most of the wilder efforts, especially in sculpture, are wildly unsuccessful. Best are the potters, who respected pottery's traditional forms, but contributed here a new handling of glazes, there a new rough energy of texture...
Learning by Anarchy. The leveling force was a brand of progressivism far wilder than anything ever dreamed of by U.S. life adjusters. While progressive educators in the U.S. talked of learning by doing, the Communist line became virtually learning by anarchy. Says Hechinger: "Schools were run by student-elected committees. Even elementary school pupils had a voice equal to their teachers. Book learning was discredited. Communist youth leaders not only spied on the teachers but could countermand their orders and free pupils from classroom work. Examinations were labeled the marks of bourgeois reaction. Homework was prohibited...
...play's cosmic atmosphere by suspending in the air a sort of armillary sphere fitted with small spotlights, which Tharon Musser has exploited ingeniously in her extraordinary lighting. The set, furthermore, has to be able to undergo drastic physical upheaval in mid-scene, in the tradition of Wilder's Skin of Our Teeth...