Word: aestheticized
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The University has always had the power to determine which plays are presented in its theaters, but up to now it has wisely allowed proposals for student productions to come from student groups. No production originated by students has been set aside for the pet project of a faculty member...
Faculty control has a valuable function to serve in scheduling the college and community groups who will want to use the theatre. But under Professor MacLeish's program or under any other system, "aesthetic autonomy" is desirable as long as Harvard students show their present ability to make it work...
Such Faculty control is in conflict with the resolutions adapted unanimously by the Student Council Drama Committee last month. The Council resolution calls for "complete aesthetic autonomy" in the new Theatre, with undergraduate groups having "complete control over the selection of their productions, directors, and the rest of their personnel...
Appearing with M. Marceau was Gilles Segal who did not fare quite so well with his pantomines. "Underwater Fishing," like many of M. Segal's sketches, was notable for its physical feats, but regrettable for its lack of aesthetic content. In his more serious selections, M. Segal's individuality compared...
This failure to consider aesthetic criteria is a romantic arrogance. Social scientists seem to believe that "truth" exists independently of their efforts to embody this truth in verbal or symbolic formulations. They further believe that they have direct access to this truth, and they therefore assume that if they make...