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...understand this conflict, one must realize that through the ages the shape and form of the single scull have changed remarkably little. True, form time to time artisans have managed to make them thinner and lighter, and this year the boathouse has added a fiberglass shell. But the basic concept of rowing has not changed...
Above all however, the Threepenny Opera can be entertaining and the Lowell House Musical Society underlines every entertaining aspect, still careful to preserve the work's artistry and social philosophy. For while Brecht could toy with the concept of opera, he would not yield on his ideas. His firmness and intensity spark both text and lyrics. He permits his audience to laugh, heartily and often, then growls at them harshly, "Honest folk may act like sinners, unless they've had their customary dinners." Whatever one thinks of Brecht's grievances of thirty years ago, he makes them compelling and troubling...
...perception, learning, and thinking; Dimitri Cizevsky, lecture on Slavic, for studies of the philosophy of Comenius and Slavic baroque literature; Kenneth J. Conant '15, professor of Architecture, for studies of the abbey and Monastery at Cluny; Carl J. Friedrich, professor of Government, for studies of the conflict of the concept of civil liberties and the doctrine of "reason of state...
...head. Last week, having just received the first fruits of his recent U.S. tour in the form of a $10,000 donation from the Ford Foundation, Rector Brugmans had reason to feel that the college's mission has become even broader than its name. "Our concept of Europe," says he, "goes as far as liberty goes." Underlying Themes. Today, financed by grants from the Belgian, Dutch, Luxembourg and West German governments, the college has 37 students from 16 different countries, including three refugees from Eastern Europe. All are university graduates, and except for two American Fulbrighters, all get college...
...despite their desire to resemble women, all the men shared "an extremely shallow, immature and grossly distorted concept of what a woman is like socially, sexually, anatomically and emotionally." The investigators found no indication that the men would be any better off as castrated males in women's clothing: "The idea of surgery seems to represent an escape from . . . sexual impulses rather than a wish for a female sexual life...