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Muhsin S. Mahdi, chairman of the Near Eastern Languages and Civilization Department said yesterday that Schimmel is "probably the greatest translator of Islamic poetry into English and German that is living...
...department has submitted its nomination for Lambdin's replacement to Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky, said department Chairman Muhsin S. Mahdi. He added that the department hopes to offer the nominee an appointment as an associate professor in the department later this spring...
...Mahdi lauded Lambdin as one of the top Semitic scholars in the world, and "one of the greatest teachers at Harvard. "He added that Lambdin "devotes an enormous amount of time to his students...
...other players do well in their roles, although only Lewis Goldman as the vulgar Birdboot and Fatima Mahdi as the terrifically sinister Mrs. Drudge ("The fog is very treacherous around here--it rolls off the sea without warning, shrouding the cliffs in a deadly mantle of blind man's bluff...") manage to match Edelstein's spirit...
...trouble starts when Mme Arcati (Fatima Mahdi), a bicycling enthusiast and old-fashioned medium given to "ectoplasmic manifestations" enters the scene. Madhdi's Mme Arcati is a short overly made-up lightening-tongued horror, but since this is precisely what Coward must have intended, Mahdi must be credited with a truly inspired bit of comic acting...