Word: directors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been useless to all but the few high-ranking scholars who could be allowed access to them. Best feature of the new library: professors, graduate students and undergraduates will be able to use everything in Randall's collection, including the Gutenberg Bible. Says Randall's coworker, Associate Director of Libraries Cecil Byrd: "These rare books are as much a part of academic equipment as test tubes and Bunsen burners...
...Harvard student is superior to the continental European student in respect to the wideness of his interests, but the two are about comparable in capabilities," Willy Hartner, Director at the Institute on the History of Science at the University of Frankfurt, observed in a recent interview...
Kenneth Reckford, the director, has decked the production out with an enormous amount of comical business, including a hilarious if anachronistic blackboard lesson, and the attribution of an obscene epithet to various members of the audience. Commendable performances in smaller roles are turned in by Martin Kligerman, Andrew Hamilton, Frank Carden, Jeremiah Brady, and others...
...would take an inspired director and a truly brilliant production to make something satisfactory out of The Adventures of King Pausole. Albert Willemetz's libretto, based on a novel by Pierre Louys, is an incoherent and frequently boring farce, moving from one extended gag to the next within a ridiculous plot. The pre-occupation with sex makes even the usual Hasty Pudding obsession seem mild, while the amours of various hermaphroditic characters is embarrassingly unfunny. The play's tasteless broadness clashes incongruously with Arthur Honegger's witty and sophisticated score which is its only saving grace...