Word: directorate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week, Pusey named Merle Fainsod, Director of the University Library, to chair the committee but postponed announcing other members until this week
Peter K. Gunness '57, Director of the Financial Aid Office of Harvard College, is leaving Harvard on July 1 to become Headmaster of Browne and Nichols, a private secondary school in Cambridge...
...technique that Watkins used can be called phony cinema verite. Cinema verite is the filming of something normal, spontaneous, not interfered with by a director. Watkins wanted his film to look like that, even though, of course, it was not that. Orson Welles used this same technique in the opening newsreel sequence of Citizen Kane...
Occasionally, productions with mixed or bad out-of-town reactions are transformed into big hits during the tryout period. Jerome Robbins (director-choreographer of West Side Story and Fiddler on the Roof) was called in to doctor A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and Funny Girl. Both times he achieved the miracle. Any Wednesday had a disastrous tryout, with many different directors and a leading man who walked out shortly before the New York opening. It ran two years on Broadway...
...shows' destinies are changed on the road, why do the producers bother with the expense and frustration at all? Harold Prince, Zorba's producer-director, finds the out-of-town critics helpful in suggesting changes that might make a good show better. (His Fiddler on the Roof and West Side Story were perhaps perfected on the road, but his flops, such as Flora, the Red Menace, benefited little from the out-of-town experience...