Word: brustein
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Professor of English Robert Brustein, director of the Loeb Drama Center, says he is actively seeking funding for a "drama conservatory" for graduate-level students to study with his American Repertory Theater...
...think there has traditionally been sufficient respect at Harvard for the arts," says Brustein, a theatrical director who brought the American Repertory Theater with him from Yale in 1979. "But I don't think it's an unchangeable situation. It's changed a lot in the last five years. A lot of people have discovered the awe of the arts...
...Already, Brustein says, "Harvard is beginning to attract a different kind of generation of Harvard students" more interested in the arts...
...sponsors and its opinions from editors, including Walter Lippmann and Edmund Wilson. Peretz, a Harvard social sciences teacher who inherited some money and whose wife is an heiress, revamped both the magazine's politics and its eclectic cultural section: it covers primarily scholarly books, theater (reviews by Robert Brustein), movies (reviews by Stanley Kauffmann) and, says Literary Editor Leon Wieseltier, "anything I can find about Israel, the nuclear issue or the ballet...
...traditional play is not an easy one to perform because of the heavy text, Finger explained. "Brustein's modernization was superb," he added...