Word: hooper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FREDERICK R. HOOPER...
...agree with Gardner that one is faced with a choice to build or destroy in modern America. The first stranger who cames seeking refuge in Michael Hooper's shelter is one of the construction workers who built it; later, there are flashbacks about workers building shoddy apartment houses. Shelters, Gardner seems to say, are only a part of a civilization that builds for death, not for life. Agreeing with this, though, is not the same as agreeing with Gardner's untenable conclusion that shoddy, cheap, commercial values are the causes of nuclear...
...best pieces of acting in this play coincide with its best-drawn roles, and Gardner's failure in portraying the middle class owners of the shelter is painfully obvious; he has made the Hooper family caricatures, and bad ones at that. (One wonders ho he would have sketched a working class shelter owner.) John Walton as Michael Hooper tries manfully to blow life into his dead role by force, bluster, and over-acting; his wife, Frances B. Barbour, faces the same problem with similar results...
...weak, and Harvard had reason to be cocky after its upset victory over Cornell last Saturday. But the Crimson harriers looked good, nevertheless; they had speed and, what was more striking, depth. Bob Knapp, Greg Baldwin, and Ed Hamlin took fourth through sixth places, and Don Kirkland and Don Hooper were strong in the seventh and eighth slots...
Laboratory work is now being done in three buildings which are blocks apart with facilities that are inadequate and inefficient, according to Francis Birch, Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology...