Word: directors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then there was Mr. Axeler, the "Mad Cossack" of the Half Moon Country Club -one of the summer camps for manhunting secretaries and girl-hunting clerks in which young Moss served six miserable years as "social director" and resident clown. The sleepless grind of "making fun" for the guests-an occupation also survived by Danny Kaye, Gene Kelly, Herman Wouk and dozens of others-consisted of reciting Shakespeare by the campfire, impersonating Fanny Brice, staging a full-length musical each week, supervising endless Spanish Fiestas and Greenwich Village Frolics. Mr. Axeler's establishment in Vermont was really more...
...manages some fascinating asides. There is Hart's quick test of tryout success (when a play is doing well, room service is always prompt, but when it is in trouble, the waiters are always late and the sandwiches soggy); there is Hart's law for the aspiring director (the less sure he is of himself, the tougher he must be with the cast). Hart knows how to interpret all the sounds made by an audience: the implications of their coughs, the degrees of their laughter, the intensity of their applause-and he also knows that "there is never...
...Later, he smoothly implicates her lover as a blackmailing gigolo. But the methodical husband has touched off a larger explosion than he designed, and the film resolves itself in a series of novel twists, most of which are so awkwardly handled that they seem to come off only in Director Edouard Molinaro's heavy hand...
...Meanwhile, it delegated much of its straight administrative work to the Office of Advanced Standing. And upon this office has now devolved the job of maintaining some semblance of order amidst the welter of different, and sometimes conflicting, ideas that surround the Freshman Program Byron R. Stookey '54, Associate Director of this office, describes its work as that of "stimulating interest in this kind of undertaking, of finding people willing to do it, of talking over credit arrangements, of creating space for the workshops, of locating all problems of detail and trying to get them squared away, of doing some...
This challenge was issued by Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold, Associate Director of the Harvard B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation. He was thinking specifically of the mass of "non-committed" undergraduates who call themselves Jews because of Jewish birth, but who identify with neither their Judaic heritage, nor active religion...