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...written a play, his first of note, which should mark him as one of the most promising of the new authors. Choosing a simple theme: a search for happiness can be rewarded only by looking forward, he has given it life by vivid portrayal of emotion and tightly knit dramatic action. His play falters only because of his personal insecurity as a new author...
...most House dining halls one can always find a group of younger faculty members huddled together over their lunch in tightly knit circles, which only a few enterprising students manage to join. The fact that student-faculty relations are intended to be an integral part of both the House and the Tutorial plans seems to have been forgotten...
...abstract wing of the show included some startlingly original pictures. Morris Kantor's Lonely Bird knit the shapes of buildings and trees together with looping lines and high-keyed colors, that were all his own. In Lee Catch's dark little Fruit Boat, with its cold blaze of lights seen across the water, abstraction and representation were happily merged. Catch's painting was one of the simplest and smallest on display, but it had size...
...past is thrilling. Except for coeds who knit in class, nothing irritates him more than people who refuse to look back. "Anyone who thinks that the world began in 1921," he snaps, "has missed the boat as a human being." Before each of Shakespeare's plays, he carefully lays the scene-the Denmark of Hamlet, the England of the Henrys, a physical description of Cleopatra ("I fumble around with this damn business to make the past seem eloquent"). Then he launches into the plays themselves, acting out each part. "Students must experience Shakespeare," he says, "not just read...
...certain basic incongruities," characters and situations refuse to act predictably: a sad-eyed suicide breaks off knifing himself in a graveyard to retrieve a little girl's balloon; the hero loses his girl to his boss, and finds her married to the boss's chauffeur. Roemer has tried to knit the pace and problems of contemporary life into the limitations of a silent film; disunity and exaggeration result...