Word: loeb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Psychology. Opponents of the bill were uneasy about giving legal sanction to big dailies to consolidate on grounds as vague as economic "failure." "It is unnecessary and psychologically bad," said New York Times Gen eral Counsel Louis M. Loeb, "for the press to take advantage of its political influence to get special advantages that other businesses do not enjoy." Loeb saw no reason for the Government to interfere with most joint operations, unless the "cooperating papers agree to fix rates below what may be justified for the purpose of obtaining an advantage at the expense of competition...
Bastille Day was last week and in tardy celebration the Loeb has set off a forty-four year old Romains candle, which not surprisingly fizzled. Dr. Knock, by French playwright Jules Romains, has reached the compulsory retirement...
Adolph Lewisohn spent $300 a month just for shaves and took up tap dancing at 80. Before giving his famous dinner parties, Carl Loeb held dress rehearsals on the preceding evening-with real food, real wine and substitute, or second-string, guests. On entering Williams College in 1895, Herbert Lehman, who later became New York Governor and U.S. Senator, took along his private car and chauffeur. Therese, daughter of Fanny and Solomon Loeb, could not button her dress at 18: servants had always done...
...Loeb's Crime and Punishment is a collection of scenes and not a play. Director Joseph Everingham has worked with Marcel Dubois' adaptation of Dostoevsyk's novel (a fact which the Loeb program is peculiarly reticent to acknowledge. One hopes they've paid some royalties). Scenes and characters are plucked out of the novel, told somewhat arbitrarily to line up acts, and sent out to do their paces...
...almost insurmountable problem to condense and excerpt a tightly structured novel down to a play. The philosophic discussions and illuminating encounters of Crime and Punishment must play out against a double suspense: the detective Porfiry closing in on Raskolnikov, and Raskolnikov's mind closing in on itself. At the Loeb there is no strength to either line of tension. The scenes are excerpted with little attempt to crowd in exposition, which makes them good theater, but it also destroys the time sense of the play. You just can't be sure when things are happening, hours or days apart...