Word: expendable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into a theatre. Shakespeare was never primarily concerned with story line, anyway; he was more interested in character than in plot. For All's Well he just snapped up a Boccaccio tale from a secondary source, complete with the trite gimmick of identification of rings. But he failed to expend the necessary effort on characteriaztion as well. Pascal once said, "Every author has a meaning in which all the contradictory passages agree, or he has no meaning at all." This play contains such passages. For example, the first two acts make real sense only if one assumes a homosexual relationship...
...blueberries lie in a patch of ground belonging to some city people. Two resourceful farmers, who like blueberries quite a bit, become rivals for the patch and expend considerable effort in attempts to acquire the blueberries. Means writes with economy in this piece, and he never lets his smooth style get away from him. It's funny. Wernick's story also is amusing, perhaps extraneous at times, but on the whole a dryly wise comment on how life she is lived in the U.S.A., where we learn love is a faith and marriage a chapel. "Birthday Letter" finds Allen Grossman...
...before the HUT can expend much more it must get more schools to cooperate. Some interested schools are almost too far away for the program to be effective. (Transportation to Newton alone takes three quarters of an hour...
Steel emphasized that each producer could expend from his own resources as much as he wished, but any expenditure from committee funds could be vetoed by a five out of seven committee vote...
...addition, the Council passed a motion by Carl F. Sloane '58 to expend funds presently allocated for exchange students to use within the College itself to foster better relations between foreign students and undergraduates. "We thus could better utilize the foreign students we have on campus," Sloane stated...