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...been one of shifting emphases and overturned policies to produce only original plays written at the University. Eleven years later, it changed its mind, deciding foreign drama was really more interesting. Then, after another five years, it came to the conclusion that any play, foreign or American, original or well-worn, should be produced if worthwhile and challenging...
...Well-Worn Pattern...
...exponent of it. For him, science fiction is speculative philosophy. It is a means of training people in creative thinking. As he states it, "People like security. They like the well-tested ideas. But anything we know exactly how to do can be better done by machines. What we want to do is show people that it is possible to view things in different ways, without relying on well-worn patterns of thought...
...eaten lunch with the workers instead of in the bosses' dining room, explaining, "Hell, I wouldn't eat with them in the States. Why should I eat with them here?" Onetime (1933-35) Russian Auto Plant Worker Reuther drew new applause from approving Indians with a well-worn point: "In America the capitalists own the factories but we workers own the automobiles. In Russia, workers may own the factories but the bureaucrats own the automobiles." Despite the personal success of his tour, however, Labor Chief Reuther came home glum: "The gulf of misunderstanding between this country and Asia...
Last week Conductor James Robertson led the Wichita Symphony in its third concert of the season. The program ranged from the almost-modern Sibelius Concerto in D Minor (with 28-year-old Violinist Aaron Rosand) to Rimsky-Korsakov's well-worn Scheherazade-which miffed a few of Wichita's growing number of musical sophisticates, but wowed the big audiences. The performances sounded as rich and bold as a big-city orchestra...