Word: hoffmann
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stanley Hoffmann, professor of Government, said this week that French President Charles de Gaulle "is like the dog in one of La Fontaine's fables--he would rather be lean and unfettered than fat at the end of a leash...
George B. Kistiakowsky, Abbot and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry, and Stanley Hoffmann, professor of Government, will speak at 8:30 p.m. tonight at Cambridge High and Latin, at the corner of Broadway and Trowbridge St. The discussion is sponsored by Scientists and Engineers for Johnson-Humphrey...
...Faculty members will appear tonight in a forum on "The Presidency in the Atomic Age." George B. Kistiakowsky, Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry, and Stanley H. Hoffmann, professor of Government, will speak in the forum, which is being sponsord by a group of college students affiliated with Massachusetts Scientists and Engineers for Johnson and Humphrey...
...week stand in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall. On opening night a full and fashionable house sat still for a 2½hour show that started with a swift skid through schmaltz (a 90-minute medley of scenes from Jacques Offenbach's romantic opera, Tales of Hoffmann) and finished with a swift skip through the silly side of the medium (a hilarious short subject in which the actors in one movie wander accidentally into another...
...this is fun, and it snowed some European critics. But to American audiences, sated with TV spectaculars and such, Laterna is scarcely magika. Its taste is dated and decadent. The spectator sees with sad surprise that Hoffmann's masks and mirrors, carriages and candelabra are no longer considered arty by the Party. What's more, the show attempts too many things at once and too few of them really fit together. The actors on the screen, for instance, continually steal scenes from the actors on the stage-they are bigger, brighter, louder. As a result, the spectator...