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Sheble Lecture

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write the best. pastoral elegy he
could. It concerns Edward King,
Milton, water, the problem of the
poet, and some God who dies that
he may live again,

Milton’s doubts about the use
of a life of self-denial and his pro-
test at the injustice of death are
neither digressions as Hanford
thought nor the “real” subject of
the poem as Tillyard maintains,
but merely a natural part, Though
water images abound, so do stellar
and other kinds; there is danger
in separating images from their
contexts. Mr. Abrams sees the
procession of images as less deter-
mining than determined. There
are certainly mythical elements in
“Lycidas” but there is a better
basis for them in Milton’s own
Christian beliefs,

The movement in “Lycidas” is
a progress that begins “Lycidas
is dead” and concludes “Lycidas,
your sorrow, is not dead.” The
poem is “a lyric reversal by dis-
covery,” a seeming defeat by death
is really immortal- triumph, This
promise of joy in the other world
which Lycidas eventually achieves
~ is shown in the ascent in style
also.

All a critic can do is presént his
description of the poem and there
are many [possible ones of “Lyci-
das”, In the bewildering multi-
plicity of this Age of Criticism we
need a safeguard from the tempta-
tion ‘to throw it all out. Each in-
terpretation might best be called

_ College Theater's Dock Brief

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ensic strategies. And the’ final
scene, ‘after the trial, achieves its
happy ending by one paradox too
many: Fowle is pardoned because
of the lawyer’s manifest incompe-
tence, which Fowle says he thinks
was part of the barrister’s delib-
erate strategy.

Bob Parker and Ian Gilbert
were yoked to this unlikely vehicle
as Morgenhall, the lawyer, and
Fowle, the uxoricide, respective-
ly. Although the fault was not
wholly theirs, both actors failed
to suggest the stunted lives of!
these characters. Bob Parker came
close to projecting the seedy self-
delusion of the barrister, but he
seemed to. lurch from one emotion
to another, Ian Gilbert understood
the’inert and prosaic Fowle; yet
he did not find ways to suggest
this inert man’s varying responses





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a “persuasive attempt” to get the
reader to see it one way or an-
other, a critic urging his audience
to see what happens, how you like
it when you do. These criticisms
serve a valuable purpose by expos-
ing us to interesting new points of
view which even in their extremes
usually contain one or two indis-
putable insights. What is most
necessary, Mr, Abrams concluded,







is “a keen eye for the obvious.”



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to the mercurial Morgenhall. These
faults are not wholly the-actors’
because the playwright failed to
provide enough action and stage
business when he adapted his or-
iginal radio script for the stage.

As director, Ginny OlRoak was
apparently responsible for the
brisk pace of the dialogue; and she
kept her actors moving about the
confined set. I was grateful for
her direction, but I suppose that
Mortimer thought his Beckett-like
ellipses, pauses and non-sequiturs
would require a slower, less cer-
tain rhythm, Whatever the pace,
omly old character-actors who had
beeri*type-cast might have succeed-
ed in The Dock Brief; in this, its
premiere amateur performance, it
was fortunate in having intelli-
gent actors, a steady directorial
hand, and: a fine set; it didn’t de-
serve them.

Cultural Economics
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economic development. in_ history.
“The historian’s method may re-
gain prestige. He has to work
with all the variables, and the
results of their interaction as his-
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sued to the New York Herald-
Tribune by the Seven College Con-
ference marked’ the beginning of
the Early Decision Plan. On the

basis of a three-year high school
record and junior year College
Boards of applicants, BMIC and its
sister colleges accept a maximum
of one-third of the ultimately ad-
mitted class on December 1. Last
Thursday a portion of the class of

of its admission.

The value and appeal of the pro-
gram is that it accepts a percent-
age of students who know where
they want to go to college five ahd
a half months early. In this man-
ner qualified students are spared
months of tension, additional ap-

The records of accepted students
show, for three years of high
school work, consistency of ach-
ievement; they are the records of
“individuals,” good students, not
merely good “test-takers.”
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maximum, the decisions on the ap-
plications of some. candidates are
deferred until May and considered
with—the~-regular;candidates, A
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her Senior College Boards may
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plication-making and test-taking. |

BMC Admits Portion of Class of 1965
This Month Under Early Decision Plan-

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| least one other school.

A certain number of scholar-
ships are awarded in December;
scholarship applicants not aided in
December are considered with the
spring applicants.

‘Due to people who apply and
have no intentions of coming and
students encountering ~ financial
difficulties, it is impossible to de-
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