Word: brustein
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Robert S. Brustein, former dean of the Yale School of Drama, arrived in Cambridge this spring, bringing four professional productions at his American Repertory Theater (ART) and new hope for undergraduates interested in drama as an academic vocation...
Feared by some students at its announcement as a threat to undergraduate access to the Loeb Drama Center, the arrival of Brustein and his professional troupe seemed to cause no immediate friction with students. The four ART shows--A Midsummer Night's Dream, Terry by Terry(a new play be Mark Leib), Happy End, and The Inspector General (directed by Peter Sellars '80)--fared well both at the box office and with critics...
...Brustein's proposal to add drama courses for credit to a Harvard curriculum that has always frowned upon them also fared well this year--at the hands of students and Faculty members...
...part of his proposal, Brustein developed a list of ten courses, both lecture and practical, which should become a part of next year's course catalogue, pending approval by the Committee on Dramatics...
...suggestions in the annual reports--the development of a smaller, well-defined graduate school, the construction of a school of government--have taken hold. In the arts, Bok was primarily responsible for saving the Visual and Environmental Studies program, creating the Office for the Arts, and bringing Robert S. Brustein from Yale to direct the Loeb Drama Center. In all his writings, Bok has stressed the need for interdisciplinary programs and worked actively--as he did as dean of the Law School--to link policy-oriented schools. Bok believes that while the each-tub-on-its-own-bottom philosophy works...