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Harvey Brooks, Pierce Professor of Technology and Public Policy, and Morton W. Bloomfield, Porter Professor of English, are taking an active role in planning the center, which will open in September 1978 in North Carolina...
...Bloomfield, a member of the board of trustees of the center, said yesterday that he expects the center to mean "a great deal to the humanistic element," because it will try to bring the humanities into the mainstream of American life...
...Bloomfield, Bowersock and Beer...
...Bloomfield's task is to create a king of mirror effect through which, for example, the town-bred Gwendolen and countrified Cecily seem merely of vanity and triviality. These are not, after all, three-dimensional characters; they are instead cardboard figures, albeit unusually witty ones, whose motto is "I speak, therefore...
...Bloomfield's failure lies in his decision to differentiate too sharply between the two ladies and the two gentlemen. Jon Goerner's Algernon--the best performance among the four leads--is a blatantly effeminate fop whose satirical jabs make him seem downright nasty. Davis Goodman's Jack, on the other hand, appears rather put upon, no better than a straight man to Algernon's wit. Goodman makes the balance still more unequal by his inability to vary sufficiently his intonations and break our of the sing-song which mars his delivery...