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Pinter's play concerns people who run from life (I'm quite happy where I am....We're not bothered. And nobody bothers us.") and the hells they inhabit ("There's not much light in this place is there, Mrs. Hudd?). Pinter creates his multi-levelled allegory by carefully planning tone and symbol; for example, the impression of utter darkness underlies a banal quarrel about whether there were indeed stars in the sky. Obviously such a play de-instance, their laughter must be nervous as well as amused...

Author: By Heather J. Dubrow, | Title: The Room | 11/12/1963 | See Source »

...general accord in the Administration and among the Masters should not be lightly dismissed, nor should the advantages of the system be overlooked. But before the system can yield positive results a great deal of additional thinking and planning must be done. In the end, a carefully devised multi-level rent plan may look attractive after...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Room Rents | 10/10/1963 | See Source »

From all around the country, students enthusiastically responded to Kennedy's Peace Corps proposal. Individual projects started at Columbia, at Dartmouth, at Wesleyan, at Michigan, at Stanford: virtually everywhere. Multi-college conferences were held at Princeton, New Jersey and Washington, D.C. Throughout the nation, students began to take an active interest in politics...

Author: By Geoffrey Cowan, | Title: Political Activism in a Progressive Decade | 10/8/1963 | See Source »

...impressively new campus. Constructed between 1945 and 1955, each new building boasts more gimmicks than the last. The campus of the 11 Faculties includes a 1250 bed hospital, a 3000 seat auditorium complete with concrete mobiles, two stadiums, a saucer shaped gymnasium, a botanical garden, and acres of multi-colored murals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Venezuela University: Bastion of Radicals | 9/27/1963 | See Source »

...into Cuba and then humiliatingly withdrawing them." What really outraged the Russians was Red China's presumption. Izvestia spluttered that in 1961 China equated its winning of the world championship in table tennis with the first Soviet manned space flight, and ridiculed Peking's claim that the multi-stage rocket carrier was a Chinese invention of the 9th century. The Russians added witheringly that the Chinese were even incapable of pronouncing the letter R and always said, "R-R-Revolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Red China: The Self-Bound Gulliver | 9/13/1963 | See Source »

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