Word: work
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Such a play requires a sympathetic production. Every step in Blanche DuBois' self-destruction must be carefully prepared for; the audience must be made to understand, to feel, the process of decay at work. Michael Murray's production at the Charles Playhouse seemed not so much misdirected as undirected, and at the end of the play, when Blanche makes her final retreat out of the real world into the grotesquely refined world of her imagination, the spectator has no sense of the inexorability of her breakdown, no feeling that this is the way it had to be, for Blanche...
President Pusey yesterday posed the question "Is there a central, dominating idea or concept at work within the American University today which holds it together, directing its activity and animating its parts?" He then answered it with a resounding...
...concerns the upper ranges of government service. It is only in the last half dozen years or so that Nigerians have been moving in substantial numbers into the civil service. In many respects it is an impressive body of men which has been gathered together to carry on the work of Nigeria's governments, but serious shortcomings exist both in particular lines of expertise and in the quantity of mature and seasoned men at the top or close to it. The Eastern and Western Regional governments, having started Nigerianization of their services earlier, are in a relatively strong position...
This division promotes stability because in the actual state of affairs the three Regions-tribes-parties, balance each other off, prevent the domination of the country by any one element, and work to maintain a great measure of constitutional compromise. Although a number of the younger politically-minded people have been much influenced by the prevailing African drift toward one-party authoritarian national government, the internal division of forces tends to bolster constitutionalism and democracy by providing a built-in opposition. It remains to be seen whether it also provides, as some accuse it of doing, a built-in barrier...
...stand to gain from unity and that the advantages to be gained from separation are minimal. Yet tribalism in one guise remains an immensely potent element. Every one denounces it, but it has a vitality which reaches well back into the African past. Most modern forces no doubt work to diminish rather than to enhance tribalism, but the major ethnic groups obviously provide pre-existing constituencies which the politician finds it alluring to draw from...