Word: almost
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...standing in the community and his regard for himself. In his tutorial group he may flounder about for the answer, and blench under the cool satire of his tutor, but once inside his office he is a different person. This double role may conceivably lead the student-leader into almost a withdrawal into what might be termed academic schizophrenia in which he loses contact with the academic reality of Harvard and narrows his world to that of the group he heads...
...transgressions of its students reach the public. Some Boston papers are eager to receive any report that will lower the public estimate of Harvard, and Harvard authorities are just as eager to frustrate them in their desire. Thus the beating of town youths may go almost unpunished if the athletes involved are valuable to the university; for it is better to let them off with a stern warning than to put them on probation or expel them and risk the nastiness of sensationalist press coverage...
...themes may be serious but the tone is light, and the creatures who take themselves most seriously eventually find flaws in their systems. The Chaplain, for all his awkwardness, comes closest to being a true philosopher but even he fails. We have a set of characters, almost all intrinsically humorous, brought together, contradicting each other and themselves, alive in a world where everything seems accepted and nothing abnormal, and only love somes...
David L. Stone played a truly impressive Mendip, at times compelling, at times dynamic, always in control as the man who owed it to himself to hang. His magnetism almost steals the show; but there is competition. Marguerite Tarrant's witch also draws attention for a beauty of speech and splendor of costume. She is fascinating in her fear of death, and radiant in the night when "Nothing is what it seems to be." Despite the "insect life" surrounding them, the young love, and do so with conviction...
...remaining characters are purely comic. The mayor's struggles to remain in command in this splintering world are given boisterous expression by Travis B. Linn; and Jacques C. Feuillan almost completely captures the poignancy inherent in the kindly Chaplain's humor, the humor of a man who thinks rather little but feels "a good deal," to whom legal matters are Greek "except, of course, that I understand Greek." And pillow-stuffed Julius Novick as Justice Tappercoom is witty and partly wise, eager for order but nonetheless good-humored...