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Rubashov's prosecutor is Gletkin, played by Leo Gordon. In the book, Koestler successfully implied that Gletkin was unimportant in Rubashov's life, that the prosecutor was only a piece of complicated Stalinist machinery--inflexible, inhuman, and moral. However, in the Kingsley play, Gordon's steel-like portrayal was awkward and overplayed. Lois Nettleton took the part of Rubashov's mistress and secretary, and was quite persuasive in proving her loyalty...
Harvard Not Inhuman...
...very size of the Harvard Law School precludes the sort of friendly community spirit evident at Yale, although Harvard is not the inhuman LL.B. factory that critics make it out to be. The students have plenty of social life and take a number of weekends off. The teaching fellow program and the opening of the new Graduate center has helped remove some of the admitted impersonality from student life. But there is no doubt that the grind here is more demanding, and that the atmosphere of the place is less leisurely. Harvard men are notorious for the time they spend...
Another fine Crimson coach with a more frustrating assignment is Hal Ulen, who for years has paddled about the pool in the Blockhouse (Indoor Athletic Building) attempting to whip a small group of outstanding swimmers into shape and spirit to furnish fairly decent competition for Bob Kiphuth's inhuman Yale machines...
Answering charges that "this inhuman pile ill stand there to mar the environment for some hundreds of years," the faculty expressed confidence that the new building will fit in with the Georgian architecture...