Word: cohn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Alfred B. Cohn '46, a member of the Cambridge Rent Control Board, said the board has not yet discussed a specific increase to propose at the meeting...
Seltzer, 43, is playing a starring role in Knock Knock, Jules Feiffer's successful new play about two middle-aged men living in seclusion (TIME, Feb. 2). Last week Seltzer was nominated for a Tony award for his role as Cohn, a fussy, intellectual eccentric. When Seltzer read his part to some of his students before the play opened, they thought he was merely being himself. Says Katherine Mendeloff, a senior English major from Baltimore: "It's so Seltzerian. Feiffer must have written it especially...
...really. While looking for someone to play the role of Cohn, Feiffer remembered seeing Seltzer in early 1975 in an off-off Broadway production of The Sea Gull. In August, he tracked down the professor, who was on a lecture tour in Africa, and signed him up. Seltzer insisted on one condition: that the play be put off until January, when he was scheduled to start a sabbatical...
Neither of the men who dominate Knock Knock is about to weep, but they are bored to tears with each other. Cohn (Daniel Seltzer) and Abe (Neil Flanagan) have shared bachelor digs for 20 years in a small house from which they never emerge. Cohn, an ex-musician, does the cooking and nurses a residual faculty for believing in myths. Abe, an ex-stockbroker, guards the shrine of adamant rationalism...
...probably the reason why, of all the great events in American history, the first of them has received the least attention from films and television. The mildest praise you can offer The Adams Chronicles (PBS, Tuesdays, 9 p.m., E.S.T.) is that it is the exception that sorely tries Cohn's law. More important, a sampling of the 13-episode series finally lays to rest the cliche that only the British are capable of producing complex family sagas...