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...Loeb Experimental Theatre will present the second American production of Wolfgang Borchart's Outside the Door (Daussen vor der Turm) in an original translation by Clayton T. Koelbe '64 and Peter T. Hoffer, Columbia '64. Koelbe will direct the production in connection with the Loeb's Directing Seminar Program...
Against the Yardlings, Amherst's freshmen were not able to win a set. Frank Ripley, Bob Inman, Vic Nieder-hoffer, John Vinton, Tom James, and John Rynoos collected wins in the singles...
...Axel Hoffer '57, of Adams House and Providence has been awarded the John A. Walz Jr. Prize of $25 for the best General Examination in German Literature...
Born in New York of Alsatian parents, Hoffer lost his sight in a childhood tumble, and though he regained his vision eight years later, he never finished grade school. At 18 he lit out for California and landed on Los Angeles' skid row. "It was then," he says, "that I first began to live." He rode the rails up and down the state, picking oranges, swinging sledges in railroad section gangs, lumberjacking. prospecting. On a gold-digging trip to the Sierras he took along a copy of Montaigne's essays. "We were snowed in and I read...
Though some of Philosopher Hoffer's aphorisms are fatuous, The Passionate State of Mind demonstrates again his knack for neat, 17th century-style brooding on 20th century problems. Samples...