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Even Caliban, the character credited with representing man's base instincts, is translated "optimistically." As excellently played by Robert Fletcher, the deformed beast becomes neither repulsive nor depressing. His Caliban would be at home in Alice's Wonderland, or in any child's wonderland, for that matter. Though humorous throughout, Mr. Fletcher does not cheapen his character with the low comedy possibilities offered him. He is grotesque, yet wholesome; funny, but still moving and touching when need...
...Alice In Wonderland. Freshman Douglas stood his ground. He was as solid as any man for civil rights. But, he cried, "What would happen if we adopted the Bricker amendment? The answer is very simple. It would inevitably defeat the whole housing bill itself . . . It is no idle mind reading when I say that the adoption of his amendment would not win over the junior Senator from Ohio to support of the bill which he so sincerely dislikes . . . Senators will probably remember the passage in Alice in Wonderland describing the smile of the Cheshire Cat, which continued after...
Influenced by certain demands of one Joseph Goldstein ... I seek the suppression of Alice in Wonderland because it ridicules the plight of the poor Mock Turtle, a practically defenseless minority...
Beating, as prescribed by Carroll's Duchess in Alice in Wonderland, was not recommended as a cure. Allergic children, think Drs. Miller and Baruch, are like cornered animals, and thus suffer enough. In common with other children, they often feel rejected by their mothers and become hostile to their parents. Hostility, according to Miller and Baruch, "is an almost universal phenomenon in our culture." But the allergic children are afraid to bring their hostility out into the open ; they bottle it up until it breaks out as illness. They feel guilty about their hostility and are really punishing themselves...
...thinks teaching should be mixed with composition, and he has been writing music steadily since he composed the score for a Dunster House musical not long after his return from Paris. He has done a good deal of choral composition, and his works include the Alice in Wonderland Suite and The Choral 'New Yorker.' Koussevitzky has heaped praise on his Toccata Concertante. It has had several performances this year by the Boston Symphony and was played under the composer's direction at Sanders Theater this winter. His new Partita for Woodwind Quintet was performed last month at M.I.T...