Word: levins
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Stage and screen director Elia Kazan will not deliver the Theodore Spencer Memorial lecture this spring. Harry Levin, professor of English and a member of the Memorial Foundation's invitation committee, announced last night that the group had withdrawn its invitation to Kazan. Another speaker will be chosen "within the next few weeks," he declared...
...Levin pointed out that the lecture is not necessarily an annual affair, and that plans for a second talk this spring had already been made before the cancellation of Kazan's talk. He said he regretted that the prize-winning director of Hollywood's "Streetcar Named Desire" and Broadway's "Death of a Salesman" was too busy with his professional work to come to Cambridge...
That announcement ends speculation that has been going on all year about who would teach the course on "Epic and Novel." Two years ago Professor Harry Levin '33 conducted the lectures, and last year it was Thornton Wilder. The first half is taught by Professor John H. Finley...
Before his death in January 1949, Theodore Spencer, Boyiston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, shared the teaching of English 123 with Matthiessen. The course was taken over by Harry Levin, professor of English, but his main interests are not in the Shakespearian field, and an expert in the area was hadly needed...
...Nussbaum '52 won the presidency of the Debate Council at its annual election meeting last night. Other officers for 1952-53 are: vice-president, Frank A. Olson '53; corresponding secretary, Richard A. Levin '54; home secretary, John A. Miskimen '54; treasurer, David L. Rose '53; publicity director, Gerald W. Gorman '54; and competitions director, Edward H. Fleischman...