Word: loeb
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...development of a smaller, well-defined graduate school, the construction of a school of government--have taken hold. In the arts, Bok was primarily responsible for saving the Visual and Environmental Studies program, creating the Office for the Arts, and bringing Robert S. Brustein from Yale to direct the Loeb Drama Center. In all his writings, Bok has stressed the need for interdisciplinary programs and worked actively--as he did as dean of the Law School--to link policy-oriented schools. Bok believes that while the each-tub-on-its-own-bottom philosophy works well for financial matters, the great...
...artist portrays the artist portraying himself, and lands somewhere in between. Asymptotic maunderings, these, on the ineffable relation between art and the artist that animates Mark Leib's brilliant and vertiginously profound Terry by Terry, a new play which joined the American Repertory's repertoire last Friday at the Loeb. Terry is obsessively theatrical--it concerns a playwright and the play he has written, and its most visceral impact is on other writers. But to characterize such concerns as esoteric, to cubbyhole theater as some sort of elite hobby or idle plaything, is to miss the point: art is life...
Then, too, Bok hesitated to completely abandon the promising academic career he had already sacrificed in large part to become dean. The author of one volume on labor law and co-author of two--Cases and Material on Labor Law (1965), with Archibald Cox, Loeb University Professor, and Labor in the American Community, (1970) with John T. Dunlop, then Dean of the Faculty and Bok's primary competitor for the presidency--Bok, through his writing and services, had established himself as an expert on collective bargaining and negotiation techniques. Since joining the school's Faculty in 1961, he had developed...
Archibald Cox '34, Loeb University Professor, chairs the 230,000 member public interest group...
...requires a powerful imagination indeed to suppress an involuntary wry smile when you hear Brustein's Theseus remark, of actors, "The best in this kind are but shadows." Perhaps--just as Shakespeare's play is "only" a dream. At the Loeb, both shadows and dreams seem, if only while the curtain is up, to take on a radiant and tangible form all their...