Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dean Ford at the same time expressed guarded optimism over the possibilities of the study. "My positive reaction is thatit puts serious argument back where it belongs in the curriculum, "he said." A lot of students are not taking curriculum seriously and Dean May is right to suggest a certain urgency in this study...
Then, almost as a tease of an answer from out of the infinite west, Richard Brautigan came a week ago and read spacey little one-liners that laughed in the now-vulnerable face of "serious" poetry everywhere. American literature at its most libertine spoke, ruthlessly mocking the discipline and care of poetry along with the paralyzing limitations that have admittedly been placed upon it. The line between space and sloppiness, like the one between innovativeness and perversity, grew tenuous. With Brautigan, things were looking grim for those of us who were counting on salvation in looseness and space...
What, then, are the lessons to be learned from Grotowski and his magnificently trained ensemble company? First and foremost, that in serious drama there is no substitute for intensity. A play is like a magnifying glass that focuses the full heat of the sun on the head of a pin. Grotowski has discovered that the smaller the audience the greater the intensity. The relationship between actor and audience is subtly altered from performer and spectator to a merging of personality in which each somehow acquires the identity of the other and suffers the same strife of soul...
...service has since received 1,100 inquiries, and ministers have met with 500 women for serious counseling. Most of them seek abortions. The majority by a narrow margin-55% to 45% -are single. About 65% are between 19 years and 30; 14% are 18 or younger. The latter group must bring parents. Explains Bielby: "A girl in that situation at that age ought to have the help of her family...
...used up to this point. I have never had a high opinion of myself as an actress, but I'm determined to develop, and I keep looking for ways to improve. If after a couple of years I decide that I can't make it as a serious actress, then I'll just quit...