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Professor of English Robert S. Brustein saidthe difference between the natural sciences andthe humanities is that in the humanities "one isforced to deal with the imagination...
...There's no scientific way to analyze astudent's text," said Brustein. He said thatgrading in the humanities would be destroyed ifreduced to a "true-false" completely objectivemethod...
Dean Shinagel, Mr. Brustein, President Rudenstine, I implore you: We need Alan. Please don't force him out. Diana Graham '93 President, Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan Players Co-producer, Into the Woods
...play or a concert. "If you spend the day watching your computer, you're not going to watch your television at night," contends Philip Glass, the avant-garde composer. "You'd rather go to the park and watch someone dancing." Live drama, predicts critic and iconoclastic director Robert Brustein, "will become what Jean Genet called 'the theater of the catacombs.' It will find small enclaves with the remainder of the faithful, like Christianity in the early days...
Coles is one of many Harvard professors who regularly writes for national magazines. Professor of English Robert. Brustein, the founder and director of the American Repertory Theater who teaches lecture courses on dramatic writing, often appears in The New Republic...