Word: work
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...easier method of praising an aspect of the "enemy" culture than to note that the book, play, or symphony under discussion is "above politics." And thus we have heard that the artistry of Wagner, Furtwangler, Prokofiev, or Shostakovich is above politics, even though we know how deeply the work of these men was influenced by their political environments...
...sent to the Cannes Film Festival where it won the grand prize, and in 1958 it served to inaugurate the American-Soviet cultural exchange. It is hard to believe that the Soviet government would try to make political hay out of totally non-political material. Furthermore, the work is concretely political since it has, above all, an anti-war theme. And so this film is not above politics, and yet it has stirred audiences throughout the world, and had an exceptionally strong effect upon Americans...
...Trial Begins, by Abram Tertz. Pseudonymously signed and smuggled from Russia, this remarkable work of socialis surrealism bitterly mocks the monolithic state with its Soviet Organization Men, its Bolshy bitches and addled Utopian dreamers, suggesting among other things that under the Communist icecap, the Russian spirit still lives...
Viewing the experiment as another step in breaking down the "diminishing frontier" between high school and college, Crooks claimed the high grades provided "further evidence along with the advanced placement program of the ability of the younger student to do college level work...
...intermediaries between the Houses and the Departments, they could be effective in arranging non-Honors tutorials and could produce a general plan to fill this gap in the College's education. Finally, they could be advisors to the Masters in general administration; Pusey stated that "as work of the House grows...the Masters have a great need for help from a smaller group of close colleagues...