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...Pitch: Adventure. Sometimes the Campaigners enact David and Goliath, with Biblical costumes and hurtling stone; sometimes a red Indian wriggles across the sand to abduct the settler's daughter, leading up to the punch line: "Jesus always pays our ransom." The first step before each production is snaring the children. The pitch is announced as Adventure Time, and what is in effect a Sunday-school session is tricked out with puppets, magicians, quick-sketch artists and ventriloquists. The moppets' roars of approval bring the adults and teen-agers swarming around in a crowd that averages 500. After about...
Another advantage this book has over the ordinary reference work: it is not always and maddeningly changing the subject. Those still incurious about ANACREONTICS, TRANSFERRED EPITHETS, INSCAPE, PARNASSIANISM, PASTORALS, PASSION PLAYS or PASTICHE, and all the trade terminology of literary criticism from Aristotle to Harry Levin to John Crowe Ransom (THE NEW CRITICISM), might still like to get a digested clue to EXISTENTIALISM, SYMBOLISM or even VORTICISM ("A brief literary movement centering around the magazine Blast, which appeared only twice...
...Stanleyville Antoine Gizenga's men arrested twelve Belgians, talked darkly of "getting even" for Lumumba's transfer to a Katanga prison. When local whites paid $10,000 ransom to free the twelve, Gizenga's agents, seeing a lucrative business, simply arrested 40 more. Belgium promptly massed two battalions along the border in Ruanda-Urundi, warned that if the captives were harmed, the troops would march in to rescue them...
...Dancing on Dreams." Ransom pumps hard for travel grants and time off for research. One of his first presidential acts was getting raises for about half the faculty; full professors now earn as much as $20,000 a year. And in marked contrast to the Wilson regime, facultymen now feel free to speak out on such Texas-ticklish subjects as integration. When students recently began stand-ins at Austin's segregated movie houses, 192 faculty members openly endorsed the movement with signed statements in the student newspaper...
Where is Texas going? Some old hands grumble that Ransom's fondness for "dancing on dreams" may plunge the university right back in hot water with the legislature. After all, Texans may yearn for a "university of the first class," but some outspoken professors make them nervous. Ransom is not worried. He says: "We need only one thing-wide confirmation of the growing opinion that we must be first class...