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...Harry T. Levin, Irving Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature, William Alfred, professor of English, and Daniel Seltzer, assistant professor of English and acting director of the Loeb Drama Center, informed, challenged and entertained an attentive audience of more than 200 in Lowell Lecture Hall...
Recounting the "lean years of the past three decades, the long interregnum of Harvard theater," Levin compared former President Lowell to St. Patrick, asserting that Lowell's lack of support had in effect banished theater from Harvard "as surely as snakes had been driven from Ireland...
...Levin emphasized that while "there may not have been a Harvard theater there was always Harvard drama." He noted that although a number of productions were based only on "two boards and a passion," the underlying enthusiasm and the construction of the Loeb Drama Center, has finally led to stability. "Even the garden of Eden had snakes," he concluded...
...only the door to his triumph, which reached its height in the Moor's eruption of jealousy and murderous violence. Said the Financial Times's Alan Dent: "He is like a lion caught in a cruel trap." In the Daily Mail, the often appreciation-proof Bernard Levin said that "Sir Laurence's Othello is larger than life, bloodier than death, more piteous than pity...
...Harry T. Levin '33, Irving Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature, and Alfred B. Harbage, Henry and Anne Cabo Professor of English Literature, join several other scholars on the committee...