Word: lecterns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Mark Van Doren delivered his first lecture at Harvard last February a capacity crowd jammed the hall. They filled every seat, every inch of floor space, window ledge and platform until the man at the lectern was practically engulfed Looking somewhat bewildered by the crush of humanity Van Doren stood quietly, hand touched lightly to his chin in a characteristic gesture...
...students these days, says Chicago's Brauer, is "deeply skeptical, but searching." Harvard's Dr. J. Lawrence Burkholder finds that "almost all the students are some what apprehensive when it comes to their faith." Many find serious gaps in the theology that comes to them across the lectern. Says George Pickering, 25, a senior at Chicago: "Problems like disarmament, radiation-they so transcend the kind of 'shall I spit at my aunt?' kind of ethics that we're lost. Ethics have been boxed in over the ages into a kind of gentility...
Defense Secretary Robert McNamara stood at complete and unmilitary ease behind the lectern on the stage of the State Department auditorium. In cool and well-punctuated sentences, with never an uh or an er, he recited fact after fact, figure after figure, in response to the blunt questions of newsmen...
...stage left sit four actors (Max Adrian, John Barton, Paul Hardwick. Dorothy Tutin) in evening dress, their only props a coffee table with decanter and water glasses, large leather-covered books to scribble in with quill pens, and a portable lectern. At stage right stand a harpsichord, a piano, a trio of skillful balladeers and their accompanist, who provide a harmonic counterpoint of period music to the proceedings. The actors read letters, poems and memoirs by and about royalty, together with historical reminiscences and profiles sketched by hard-eyed courtiers and literary greats from Malory to Jane Austen...
...middle of saying that protests are silly and ineffective. "Leave the constructive alternatives to Bundy," he says. "He has at least as strong a will to survive as we do. If there is to be any protest against a destructive system." Damn you all. He jumps off the lectern and leaves the building...