Word: brustein
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Professor of English Robert S. Brustein, the director of the Loeb, said Symonds was replaced after the Standing Committee on Dramatic Arts decided to expand the position he held, adding the role of lecturer on the dramatic arts...
...committee decided not to rehire Symonds because he did not have the teaching qualifications to be a lecturer, Brustein said...
...dedication of Symonds and we're suspicious that the new director may very well find himself too busy with ART-imposed work to have time for student theater. After all, the recommendation of a grateful student director carries nowhere near the clout of a recommendation from Robert Brustein, director...
Until Harvard reconsiders its ties to the ART and renegotiates the latter's parasitic hold on the Loeb Drama Center, and until the standing committee ceases to be a rubber stamp for Brustein's wishes, undergraduates and their supporters will have little recourse to prevent Symonds from leaving his current post. And although his successor may well prove a champion of student theater, a more permanent solution is necessary. The survival of undergraduate theater should not rest upon the whims of a professional theater company...
When M. Butterfly was reviewed in The New Republic, Robert Brustein had said that there was too much plot, much going on, but that he still preferred an overspiced dish to stale white bread--do you think you tend to too much plot, too much story in this new play...