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Capp works in a free-flowing format, first reading off questions from a deck of file cards submitted by students (but stacked to include queries on his pet hates), then fielding questions from the floor. Laughing uproariously at his own answers, he told a Wisconsin audience: "You show me an 18-year-old humanitarian who wants to change the world he hasn't been in long enough to learn about, and I'll show you a pest." He mocks student idealism with heavy-handed wit. "A concerned student is one who smashes the computer at a university...
There is no reason to doubt the official explanation of the new format--that it was fixed upon to avoid the embarrassment of small crowds and the discomfort of speaking into blinding television lights at Sanders Theater. Gardner, a busy man these days at the Urban Coalition, reportedly wanted a time-saving method of giving the lectures and television provided that too. At the same time, though, one can easily guess what the response of a normal group of Harvard students and Faculty would have been to Gardner's comparison of Marcuse's disciples to the businessmen who supported Hitler...
Experimental Format...
Dean Price emphasized that this year's format is only an experiment. Ninety-seven per cent of McGeorge Bundy's audience last year watched his lectures over television. But if Gardner's series is not successful, Price said, the format will be changed back...
Gardner changed to a television format because of the technical problems of broadcasting from a public lecture, Price said. Gardner will speak at 10 p.m. next Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday on WGBH (Channel...