Word: hummel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unkempt, minimum-wage janitor at Bethany College in Bethany, W. Va., for 30 years, Larry Hummel spent his days picking up litter and his nights alone in a small apartment over a garage. His habit of reading the Wall Street Journal and asking economics professors about the stock market seemed a minor eccentricity. But since his death last month at age 82, Hummel has become a major hero. In his will, he left Bethany (enrollment: 800) a bequest that may eventually be worth as much as $1 million...
Evidently Hummel had parlayed his savings and his share of the proceeds from the sale of a family dairy farm into a small fortune in securities. Recalls Forrest Kirkpatrick, an economics professor and the school's faculty dean: "He used to ask me what I thought of utilities, metals and railroads. I thought he was thinking of buying two or three shares...
MUCH OF THE PLAY'S success relies on the ability of director Chad Hummel to bring out the moral ambiguities of seemingly clearcut moral issues. Admittedly, Miss Julie is a manipulative coquette who delights in ordering Jean to kiss her feet and be her dance partner. Yet as Dishy's performance illustrates, Julie is also a pitiable character, a girl with a sordid past and an emotionally empty present. Similarly, Norris' refreshingly human portrayal of Jean transcends the stereotype of the noble savage and simple Marxist social commentary. While Jean admittedly experiences humiliation as a servant of aristocrats...
Surprisingly, Hummel's essentially conservative interpretation of the drama lies at the heart of much of its success. In avoiding the tendency to turn Julie and Jean's romance into a modern-day social commentary, Hummel maintains the aristocratic character so central to Miss Julie. The love scene is confined to an appropriately small, 19th century staging, as is the confrontation between Julie and Jean. In both action and design nothing seems extraneous...
Cliff Bradshaw (Chad Hummel), a young American author in search of a subject, is the show's male protagonist. Paris and Venice fail to inspire him so he makes his way to Berlin, a city rich with parties and nightlife. There, he is naively introduced to the subculture of the Kit Kat Klub by a pleasant-seeming young German smuggler, Ernst Ludwig (David Kirach). Calmly watching the stageshow. Cliff is masterfully seduced by its star-performer Sally Bowles (Belle Linda Halpern). And while the first act only hints at the rising Nazi power, focusing on Cliff and Sally's ensuing...