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...thwarted. [Genesis 11:4-9: "And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven ... So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of the earth."I Can't we take God's hint, and leave his domain alone...
...been easy for the West Germans to turn their backs on the Soviet proposal, for Smirnov has offered not the slightest hint of what political price Moscow might be prepared to offer in any negotiations. But in their pitch, the Russians have firm backing from all their allies-even Marshal Tito has stopped Yugoslavia's hate-Germany campaign to sweeten the atmosphere-and the Smirnov line still has some appeal in West Germany. Particularly interested: Erich Mende, leader of Adenauer's little Free Democratic coalition partners, who has long sought closer contact with Moscow to spur chances...
Henry James was a master hint dropper. In the novel of sensibility, a hint often drops with a sizable psychological bang, but in the theater a hint dropping is about the same as one hand clapping...
What has happened, says Getlein, is that the variations possible to abstraction are running out. The oldtimers of abstraction are only repeating themselves, and their disciples will do the same. The genuinely novel paintings at the Whitney were paintings that show at least a hint of image-some sand dunes by Karl Knaths ("Naturally, we all knew about dunes anyway, but we didn't know about these dunes"), a Pietà by Abraham Rattner "that compares with the last sculptures on that theme by Michelangelo." a standing nude by Raphael Soyer ("We see freshly the tired flesh, the dull...
Where the College fails completely, however, is in the theatre. The single offering with any hint of practical instruction in acting or direction, Professor Packard's English P, thoroughly tempers this exercise with formal study of theatrical history, the theory and principles of acting, directing, stage design, etc. Otherwise, attempts to found courses in performance have been beaten down with all the classic arguments: the study of acting is too professional--Harvard is not a vocational training school and it should leave such non-scholarly subjects to less scholarly institutions...