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...HENRY N. COBB, the new chairman of the Architecture Department of the Graduate School of Design, is not just another academic. Cobb came to Harvard this fall with more than two decades of practical experience--and no teaching--behind him. Unlike some of his academic peers, Cobb has known the pinch and compromise inherent in realizing any design. He demands that architects respond to the possibilities and pressures of society. The best architecture of the past has managed to meet the functional, aesthetic and spiritual demands of the people it serves...
...Cobb--a partner in the New York firm of I.M. Pei, is skeptical of architects who, in reaction to social polemics of the Modern movement, have sought to free architecture from its responsibility to society: "Now more than ever, we need to ask what validity, if any, there is in architecture as a social art. Architecture must reflect its context, must speak to the human condition at a certain time and place, while also fulfilling its physical function...
...role of the client becomes a crucial factor in any design process. Cobb attributes the elegant sparseness of the Salk Institute to an unrelenting client who "challenged everything--squeezed out everything (in terms of form)--that was not necessary." He contrasts this economizing to Harvard's William James Hall, which looms outside his office window. William James, he says, is "a monstrous form" glazed over with an apparently arbitrary scheme of decoration. The building also fails to meet the conditions of its context: "It makes a horrible statement of the relationship of an institution to the people who are part...
...Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound, who shot his colleague, and the one currently played by Michael Caine in Dressed to Kill, who sports a blond wig and goes after patients with razors. But such methods are unorthodox. The image most people carry of psychiatrists is that of Lee J. Cobb in The Three Faces of Eve -gentle, calm, kind, the sort of person you would entrust with your mother. You remember your mother...
...serve as an alternative to Broadway's commercial offerings; for ten years it provided a forum for playwrights like Clifford Odets and William Saroyan, introduced to the American stage the Stanislavsky Method of acting, and nourished such actors as Lee Strasberg, John Garfield, Cheryl Crawford, Lee J. Cobb and Stella Adler (Clurman's first wife). As a drama critic since the late 1940s, mostly for the Nation, he drew on enormous theatrical erudition, a prodigious memory and an insatiable delight in the arts. "I disapprove of much," he once said, "but I enjoy almost everything...