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Last week the U.S. asked West Germany (which is forbidden by treaty to allow manufacture of atomic bombs) to classify the newest design as secret. But scientists say that the secret is already out. The Brazilian atomic energy commission already owns three early models of the West German machine, and an Amsterdam professor is designing others "for commercial purposes." When the U.N. Political Committee takes up the subject of disarmament this week, there should be a new urgency about the Big Four at last reaching agreement on controlling the atom...
...nature of such circumstances that the choice of tactic may, by unconscious design, meet the requirements of the moment. And this is what happened. The perfect way both to fight for one's rights and at the same time to convince one's opponent that one is not an uncontrolled savage, is to fight, to resist--non-violently. The pictures and stories of Negroes at lunch counters and on picket lines, being spat upon, cursed, struck, beaten, dragged away and yet never speaking back, never lifting a limb in self-defense--this "new Negro" broke the image of slovenly, slap...
Unlike Leonardo and Piranesi, contemporary architects are not inhibited by technological restrictions. Even their most outrageous architectural fantasies are usually technically possible. But for them, the question of what to build has taken precedence over problems of how to build. Says Arthur Drexler, director of architecture and design at the Museum of Modern Art: "Social usage determines what is visionary and what is not. Visionary projects cast their shadows over into the real world of experience, expense and frustration. If we could learn what they have to teach, we might exchange irrelevant rationalizations for more useful critical standards. Vision...
Many experts are necessary to bring any building project to realization: structural and mechanical engineers, plumbing and electrical engineers, site engineers, landscape architects, lighting experts--and in the case of a theater, acoustical engineers and stage design engineers...
...other side of my case. Between Boston and Los Angeles over 1500 colleges and universities offer courses for academic credit in theater work. Acting courses, directors' laboratories, design courses, seminars in scene-painting and stage lighting, in children's theater, programming, business management; courses in playwriting, stage managing, dramatic criticism and theater history, as well as physical expression or dance, voice, and dozens of related subjects--all these are attracting an unprecedented number of undergraduates and graduate students. "Dramatic Art" or "Theater" or "Speech and Drama" (theater is often subordinated to speech departments) have in the past 25 years acquired...