Word: chapman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...questions he remained unconciliatory. Chapman to this day objects to musicals -- particularly to their high production costs. He is mistrustful of student productions...
Several other announcements in the same period did little to mollify the growing student contingent of anti-Loebites. The HDC, which had already started discussing possible inaugural productions, was jarred to hear that Chapman's assistant, Stephen Aaron, would direct the first play at the Loeb. Several years earlier, Aaron had been Harvard's foremost student director. Now, despite all his efforts to represent the interests of undergraduates, he became a symbol of faculty control...
Right from the beginning of his career as director of the Loeb, Chapman established a policy of putting himself above politics. He was an administrator, a professional -- something of a George Washington in that his success in the pre-Loeb era brought him to a position of authority where he could leave the bickering to his juniors. In some ways this proved a good thing. Chapman was able to maintain the respect of both his fellow faculty members and the undergraduate community. But the price of this respect was considerable: answerable to both the students and the Faculty Committee, Chapman...
...Chapman was an administrator, a professional - something of a George Washington in that his success in the pre-Loeb era brought him to a position of authority where he could leave the bickering to his juniors." ferring ones in which the undergraduates play minor roles and learn from their elders. This has consistently been the pattern of Chapman's own shows: graduate students, faculty members and local professionals take the lead roles, Chapman directs, and undergraduates -- expect for a small number of established stars -- are relegated to bit parts, or to hammering nails...
Since the productions Chapman has directed at the Loeb have generally been excellent, his undergraduate exclusion policy has been an unpopular one -- at least among undergraduates...