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...article in Sunday's New York Times magazine accuses Robert S. Brustein, professor of English and director of the Loeb Drama Center, of ethical breaches, including using the offer of a Harvard job to curry favor with the New York Times' theater critic...
...rarely had ugly confrontations with anyone in the theater, and my mail from theater people, even at its angriest was civilized," former Times theater critic Frank Rich '71 wrote in the magazine article. "In 13 years the few significant exceptions invariably involved Robert Brustein, the artistic director of the American Repertory Theater at Harvard University...
...Brustein denied the allegations in an interview this week...
...consider this to be a character assassination," Brustein said of Rich's article. "There's not a word of truth...
...what I am!" He takes his car to his final sale, killing himself to pay off the debt his life has incurred. The remainder of the play is a "requiem," a eulogy for Willy which demands that "attention must be paid." In the "Theater of Guilt," as critic Robert Brustein has dubbed it, the audience must empathize with Willy, the "everyman...