Word: loeb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...founding of the Afro-American Studies Department in 1969 took place in the highly-charged political atmosphere which gripped the campus in the wake of the University Hall takeover. Militant black students-- one of whom reportedly carried a concealed meat cleaver--waited somberly outside the Loeb Drama Center while a special Faculty meeting inside debated and then passed the legislation creating the Department...
Ackerman's argument was apparently persuasive, as the motion was defeated narrowly. In comparison to the 1969 vote on establishing an Afro- American Studies Department, there was little Faculty interest this year. In 1969 over 400 Faculty members turned out for the Loeb meeting. The turnout this year was below 170. Few Faculty members seemed interested in the debate and even fewer seemed to have any knowledge of the controversy despite the attention it has generated over the past two years...
...kind of style that anyone would resort to after writing about baseball games every day for a generation, and as a rather embittered and sentimental atavist there is passion in his every word. A bundle of fresh caricatures, Smitty can sound like a disgruntled Confederate general, or like William Loeb, the publisher of the Manchester Union Leader who expresses his most exquisite right-wing rage in capital letters. A gossip columnist, a backroom politician, a muckraking Galahad of journalism -- he conjures up images of a fierce American brashness that are endearing and real. Also, and less successfully...
...LOEB DRAMA CENTER. New music for the theater by Harvard composers Earl Kim and Fred Lerdahl. Free...
...EVENING OF MUSIC FOR THE THEATER is sponsored by the Music Department and the Fromm Foundation, free, open to the public, and contemporary. (A 1958 Varese piece and two world premieres.) 8:30. Saturday and Sunday at the Loeb...