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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Just a scant year ago, Professor William Alfred was a normal Harvard English professor, noted primarily among undergraduates for his sonorous Old English recitations, his passionate lecture gesticulation, and his exasperation with the microphone of Lowell Lec. There were some rumblings about a play in-the-works but nobody paid much attention...

Author: By Joseph A. Kanon, | Title: Grendel, Fedora, and a Big Fat Hit: William Alfred is Still 'Just Folks' | 7/5/1966 | See Source »

Just a scant year ago, Professor William Alfred was a normal Harvard English professor, noted primarily among undergraduates for his sonorous Old English recitations, his passionate lecture gesticulations, and his exasperation with the microphone of Lowell Lec. There were some rumblings about a play in-the-works but nobody paid much attention...

Author: By Joseph A. Kanon, | Title: Grendel, Fedora, and a Big Fat Hit: William Alfred is Still 'Just Folks' | 5/19/1966 | See Source »

...journey, cleansed and purified by the perspiration that had swept over me. With pounding heart and light, hurried breaths, I opened the door and gazed upon the smiling Assemblage, then collapsed with ecstacy at attaining the Vision of my Section Man; and saw far below me Lowell Lec, infinitely plateau I saw glass doors right and left, must regretfully descend in another half-hour with a renewed Energy and transformed Soul. Shirley Tung...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Getting Into Lamont | 10/16/1964 | See Source »

Stanislaw J. Lec believes in almost nothing. He is 53. When he was 31, he was interned in a Nazi concentration camp. Every internee was eventually killed by the Germans except the handful who escaped. Lec got away in a stolen uniform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: From a Hollow Eye | 6/8/1962 | See Source »

...17th century La Rochefoucauld's maxims were full of bee stings and rare perfumes. Lec's often have the smell of burnt flesh and of sickly sweet gas, the feel of barbed wire, and a vision of the world from a hollow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: From a Hollow Eye | 6/8/1962 | See Source »

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