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Commencement Speech
" So, here you are at last, class of 2010, about to graduate. But from what? "
Category: Arts
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New Dance: Writings on Modern Dance
" My dance is an art concerned with human values. It upholds only those values that make for harmony and opposes all forces inimical to those values. "
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Theatre Arts in a Free Society
" In a world of growing tensions, the subject of freedom for the theatre and its related arts necessarily gives us grea tconcern. "
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Norman Mailer: The Angry Young Novelist in America
" Norman Mailer’s latest production, Advertisements for Myself, is a painful book to read not because the author is so grimly determined to unburden himself of all his grievances and resentments... "
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Theatre Arts in a Free Society
" In a world of growing tensions, the subject of freedom for the theatre and its related arts necessarily gives us great concern. "
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A Boy’s Will: Excerpts
"
Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers today;
And give us not to think so far away
As the uncertain harvest; keep us here
All simply in the springing of the year. "
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Art as Experience
" By one of the ironic perversities that often attend the course of affairs, the existence of the works of art upon which formation of an esthetic theory depends has become an obstruction to theory about them. "
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“The Play’s the Thing”: A Polemic
" Though other literary forms wax and wane, the novel, short story, diary, epic and such forever suffering favor or oblivion at the hands of the reading public, plays, it seems, are always out of fashion... "