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...time high school drama teacher, read Holabird's letter, "I would say that the conditions for producing worthwhile group theatre projects at Harvard more nearly correspond to an archaic nineteenth century public high school than to a leading American university...
Such a guinea pig, of course, would have to have an air of freshman-like innocence and a convincingly slight knowledge of nineteenth-century European history, so I set to work at once. The letter which Cramer had sent to a College club was necessarily vague, so the first stop was to phone the number on the letterhead for further information...
...confined our "study" to the textbook, and at the end of two hours had covered approximately half of it. A session of equal length the next morning finished off Binkley, leaving only a few chapters in Schaprio's History of Europe in the Nineteenth Century" to be done...
...industrious and independent thinkers. But its indirect effect has been and will continue to be enormous, it should forever remain, a landmark in the history of the intellect, a perpetual source of fundamental ideas, a monument in metaphysics, cosmology and theology, a watershed separating off twentieth century from nineteenth century thought...
...most significant artistic achievement was the opera itself, which Mr. Goldovsky and a similar cast lied presented for the first time in America at Tanglewood last summer. Like several other Mozart operas, notably "Cosi Fan Tutte," "Idomeneo" is a diamond lying neglected amidst the track of the nineteenth century. The orchestral passages are exceptional even for Mozart, and the choral writing is superior to that in his more famous operas. As presented in Mr. Goldovsky's adaptation, the first act was highly conventionalized and contained too much plot exposition in the form of recitative--arias were scarce, in fact...