Word: hancock
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Although it has long been the largest university endowment in the nation, Harvard's investments began modestly. In 1777, after 141 years they still totalled only $55,000. Funds were managed by treasurer John Hancock, who like most of his successors (including the present treasurer Paul C. Cabot '21) was a Boston investment banker...
...Hancock based his production on Brecht's original text written in the 1920's and adapted by Eric Bentley. Howard Taubman of the Times noted that "his (Bentley's) English accomplishes the feat of making Brecht seem at home among...
...Hancock's production opened in New York one day after the well-established Living Theater (Connection) opened Man Is Man, also based on Brecht's play. The Herald Tribune called Hanoock's version "sound in wind and limb and ear and eye...serving not only Brecht but off- Broadway as well." The Living Theatre version was critialzed as a "flailing work, possessed neither of a design of its own nor, it is to be hoped, of Brecht...
...Hancock described his New York show by phone yesterday as similar to Loeb version in sets, music, and general techniques, although the New York production had to be adapted to a smaller theater. He called his experience at the Loeb valuable because "we could experiment until we found what the audience liked, and adjust the script accordingly...
Taubman observed that "under John Hancock's direction this production approaches the manner and mood of the Brecht Theater in East Berlin." The Hancock version is "tougher in texture, lighter in construction and more focused on dramatic drive than the Living Theater version...