Word: chapman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...happened that Seltzer's second term as director of the Loeb marked the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's (and Marlowe's) birth. That called for a celebration -- and everyone wanted to take part. The Shakespeare Festival, generally plotted by Chapman, Hamlin, and Seltzer the preceding Spring, was expected to be one of the most exciting events not only in the history of the Loeb, but of Harvard theatre...
...best actors to come through Harvard in years. Anderson and Lithgow suggested that the executive committee become self-perpetuating--that it choose its own new members--and that it alone be entrusted with selecting plays for mainstage production. In return for this concession to Faculty feelings (Chapman's in particular), the HDC was to pass on all Loeb productions, and its finances were to be regularly replenished through benefit performances...
...Chapman, however, liked the idea, even though he did suggest that a fifth person be admitted into the new body: Timothy S. Mayer '66, president of Harvard G&S. Chapman thought this would make the committee more representative of all undergraduates interested in Harvard theatre. Anderson, Lithgow, Maynard, and Miss Esterman concurred...
Predictably the HDC meeting at which the whole formula was unveiled turned into a bloody, no-holds-barred battle. The main opponent of the new proposal was Charles Ascheim '66, and the meeting finally adjourned having only decided to give Ascheim a chance to speak with Chapman -- to see if he would accept an elected executive committee...
...Chapman stated unmistakably that he would not. When the HDC met the following week, even Ascheim reluctantly supported a plan for a self-perpetuating committee...