Word: levins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your editorial writer remarks that "professors Levin, Chapman and Brower ... have appointed themselves unofficial ministers to the board of trustees, and have taken upon their shoulders the work of keeping Cambridge drama clean." This is inaccurate: professors Levin, Brower and I are members of the board of trustees, not self-appointed "ministers"; we are only three of a total board of nine which acts unanimously in all important decisions. Your editorial writer did not, I am told, consult any one of the members of the board. Since your editorial purported to be based on matters of fact, it would seem...
...board takes pride in the general excellence of the first year of the Cambridge Drama Festival. We are not unreasonably pleased with that achievement, however, and can see room for improvement in future, should circumstances make the continuance of the Festival possible. As members of the board, professors Levin, Brower and I are anxious for the financial as well as for the artistic success of the Festival. We do not like to be blamed for the failure of a cause we have done our best to further. Robert Chapman, Associate Professor of English...
...limited to the copulation of cliches." One critic believes that what Nabokov intended was "a joke on/our national cant about Youth." Graham Greene, who calls Lolita a "distinguished novel," has founded a fictitious anti-pornographic society which needles the book's moralistic critics. Harvard's Professor Harry Levin insists Lolita is "a great book, not primarily sexual at all . . . a symbol of the aging European intellectual coming to America, falling in love with it but finding it, sadly, a little immature...
...summer theater's demise is also attributable, however, to the carping criticism directed at its producers by certain members of the English Department, notably professors Levin, Chapman and Brower. These gentlemen seem to have appointed themselves unofficial ministers to the board of trustees, and have taken upon their shoulders the work of keeping Cambridge drama clean. Any motive outside of sheer aesthetic sensibility on the part of the producers, such as making a profit, is suspect. A phrase much in the air when one of the three guardians is around is "New York thinking." By this is meant both...
...added another goal at 18:40 when the defensemen failed to cover invading lineman and then netted three more in the final period. Again, Terrier goalie Harry Levin was called on to make only ten decent saves (official total, 21) as compared to Captain Jim Bailey...