Word: harvey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Part of Classroom's success lies in the country's post-Sputnik appetite for science. But the show could have been a nucleonic turkey without its M.C.: Dr. Harvey E. White, 57, a top University of California physicist, who got the $38,000 yearly job (v. $12,000 at U.C.) after previously enlivening a TV high school physics course in Pittsburgh. A lanky, friendly, precise talker, Dr. White is no jazzy showman ; he drones at times like a farm agent exhaling a market report. Yet he somehow makes physics a sort of cosmic cooking course that can fascinate...
...Harvey Brooks, Dean of Engineering and Applied Physics, agreed with Haertlein that it is mainly "marginal students" who leave the engineering field. Of approximately 20 College engineering majors who entered other areas this year, not one was a Dean's List student, he stated...
...failed to be stirring largely because Laurence Harvey as Henry, given some of Shakespeare's best writing for trumpet, could not make the climaxes. (When asked if Harvey had a cold, someone who ought to know said, "No, he's a film actor.") And his clipped, fastidious diction sounds like a mannerism picked up from overindulgence in Restoration comedy...
Fortunately, the role (and the play) is almost actorproof, and anyway Mr. Harvey was frequently satisfactory in quieter moments. In the supporting cast, Joseph O'Connor was an excellent Chorus, and Richard Wordsworth and Dudley Jones made more of Pistol and Fluellen than anybody, including Shakespeare, could have expected...
...three junior representatives are Edward L. Croman '60, of Leverett House and Newark, New Jersey; Theodore R. Mamor '60, of Eliot House and Mountain View, California; and Harvey L. Ozer '60, of Dudley House and Dorchester...