Word: loeb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...William Loeb...
Every four years, like a recurring nightmare, the cherubic visage and satanic fulminations of William Loeb, cantankerous, ultraconservative publisher of the Manchester, N.H., Union Leader, would turn up on the front pages of newspapers across the country. As aspiring Presidents trooped up to New Hampshire for the nation's earliest presidential primary, Loeb's relatively small daily (circ. 65,298) became an influential voice in American politics. That voice was Loeb's alone: petulant, scurrilous and unfailingly infuriating. For more than thirty years, Loeb put his splenetic opinions where no one could miss them: in boldface type...
Where he lives is a rambling wood frame house near the Loeb Drama Center. Built for a large family in a style now obsolete, the house seems a bit hollow without the four (now grown) children who used to live there or the students who meet there once a week to talk about creative writing. The comfortable, lived-in part is the back, where current fiction (Italian Folktales by Italo Calvino) and current periodicals (The Paris Review, the Nation) lie about and are read. This is where Monroe Engel teaches, writes and, one presumes, takes his sundry nutrients...
...tour allows ART to perform while the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club uses the Loeb Drama Center, the home for both companies, to stage its two fall-term productions, "Threepenny Opera," and "Twelfth Night...
Last fall, ART performed at the Wilbur Theatre in Boston while the HRDC played the Loeb. Brustein, who formerly directed the Yale Repertory Theater, moved to Cambridge and formed...