Word: jaffee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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"First you have to determine whether Harvard, as a charity organization, can be liable for negligence, which it can be under the Supreme Court ruling," Lou's L. Jaffe. Byrne Professor of Law, said yesterday. "Then you must deal with the landowner's obligation to protect people from known dangers...
Hiram Jaffe (Gould) walks dogs in Central Park by day and writes skin books by night. All the while, his wife Dolly (Paula Prentiss) pelts him with Freudianisms that she has picked up as a psychiatrist's secretary.
They are moving two blocks down Central Park West, but Jaffe proves incapable of coping with that humdrum task. In a running routine that is a very low mutation of Kafka, Jaffe is consistently unable to persuade the anonymous moving man to move his furnishings. This is supposed to be...
Jaffe soothes his emotional wounds by retreating into fantasies, notably a romp in the hay with Genevieve Waite. But the viewer wonders: are these only fantasies? And does anybody care?
Jaffe, whose specialty is quantum field theory, joined the Faculty as assistant professor in 1967, becoming associate professor in 1969.