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...remedy this problem? Keeping the house lights up throughout a production is not necessarily the answer. Doing so might prevent the audience from entering that sublime state of non-existence where compassion becomes easier than judgment. On the other hand, keeping the house lights down the entire time can create a troubling dichotomy between the world of theater and the external world. It's easy enough to check our judgments at the theater door along with our coats if we know we can pick them up again on the way outside...
...around this problem is to catch the audience off-guard, to confront them with their own existence while they're in that state of nonjudgment. To have the actors in a production approach individual members of the audience during the production--to surprise the audience with the fact that they can be observed--might just work. This is exactly the technique used by the Institute for Advanced Theater Training in their production of Bertolt Brecht's St. Joan of the Stockyards three weeks ago in the Loeb Ex, and it works wonders. To feel sympathy for a beggar...
Only a tiny number of students get that much sleep on a regular basis. The problem is compounded when students skip meals to catch extra time...
Scarry says that most Harvard faculty members are devoted teachers; the problem is that there aren't enough of them. "Our faculty is too small for the student size." From the perspective of the outside world, she says, "I don't think Harvard is famous for its undergraduate teaching…you don't realize how dedicated these teachers...
...sudden these consumers would abruptly stop spending, and that could send us into a recession." While the Dow Jones dropped slightly on news of Greenspan's report, the tech-heavy NASDAQ saw steady gains throughout the morning and early afternoon - a trend at the heart of a problem for the Fed chairman. "These days the high-tech companies seem immune to interest rate hikes," notes Baumohl. "It makes it more difficult for the Fed to rein in consumer spending, because consumers are buoyant and enthusiastic because they're watching their wealth grow." But real wealth, as Greenspan knows...