Word: kaiser
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SHYLOCK remains unreconciled. How satisfied can we be about any "happy" ending that makes its sine qua non his humiliation? Director George Hamlin has taken a wise hint from Walter Kaiser and ended the play, not with the happy sight of lusty couples marching off to bed, but on a note of melancholy. Silhouetted against a night sky, Antonio wordlessly stares into a fountain, suggesting that the solutions on the play's surface are far from final...
...work in the practice of law, managing a department store, as a banker, a football referee, a church organist and a breeder of thoroughbred horses. As an artillery captain following the Armistice of World War I, he persuaded seven fellow officers to help him try to kidnap the German Kaiser Wilhelm and deliver him as a Christmas present to President Woodrow Wilson. The scheme eventually failed, but the fact that MacPhail managed to nab one of the Kaiser's monogrammed ashtrays testified to how close the plotters had come to pulling...
...take the strongest possible objection to the sentence you have published about me in the Registration Issue of The Harvard Crimson ("Harvard Stays Mum on Greek Bequest"). The sentence reads, "Kaiser would neither confirm nor deny the report..." That is a deliberately misleading sentence, inasmuch as your use of "would" implies that you asked me to confirm or deny a report that the Greek government had given Harvard one million dollars. The simple fact is that your reporter never even mentioned such a rumor in either of our two telephone conversations...
...have told you; and that was the extent of our conversation. Would you claim that I "would neither confirm not deny" rumors that the earth is flat, that Bacon wrote Shakespeare, or that two plus two equals seven, when you have not asked me about those matters either? Walter Kaiser Professor of English and Comparative Literature
...said last week that some money had been received for the Program for Modern Greek Studies, and said that the donor had asked him not to disclose his identity or the amount of money involved. Kaiser would neither confirm nor deny the report and Rosovsky was not available for comment...