Word: burr
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...letter from Robert W. Haney, Allston Burr Senior Tutor in Adams House, advises Hopkins that he is being "allowed to withdraw" as of December 10, "with the understanding that you may not register again in the College without a vote of the Board...
HUUI, HUUI, by Anne Burr, is no shining example of the playwright's art. But Producer-Director Joseph Papp of New York's Shakespeare Festival manages to make it bright enough to provide an evening of unusual interest. Barry Primus plays an eccentric loner with a father fixation who utters, "Huui, hum" in moments of distress. Two women, charmed by his innocence, try to change him, but he eludes them only to meet final disillusionment...
Harvard-Radcliffe SDS members discussed treatment of participants in the Paine Hall sit-in and the general movement to abolish ROTC on campus at a meeting in Burr B last night...
Richard Wilbur gave a reading from his poems here a week and a half ago. There were about 150 people in Burr B when he arrived from dinner at the Signet. It may have been the incongruity of the room, the Delphic tiers of the lecture hall dwarfing the rough-hewn podium, or the poetry itself; somehow the evening was majestic and depressing, and reflective of what poetry has recently become: accomplished, public, ill-at-ease...
Respectful of his heritage, Wilbur stood patiently last week before a lot of people who like Norman Mailer and Sylvia Plath (which is alright!) and read like a poet exhausted by the age. At dinner, he'd said something about growing "older and more vulgar," but in Burr he seemed young, and strangely erudite. Introducing one of his poems, "A Baroque Wall Fountain in the Villa," he dismissed the question of "transcendance and acceptance" as "sounding too much like a critic," but at other moments talked offhandedly of Pascal ("The spirit doesn't have any business denying things...