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Jonathan Kozol's book, published today, is a book for those freshmen and us other adolescents who figure sometimes we're not getting the most out of life. Now Mr. Kozol, despite his current tenure of a Rhodes Scholarship, is no Norman Vincent Peale selling deodorant in the locker-room. Indeed, his skillful fantasy, like most recent Harvard fiction, will not notably amuse the accountants over at the 'Program for Harvard College...
...pretty thin stuff. The pleasure to be derived from Mr. Ritchard and company is like the pleasure from a professional ball game. The actions so perfect, all the flies snagged, precision done with ease. Ritchard, who looks as if he's been watching Rex Harrison, clearly had the part written for him and does it with a blinding polish. Miss Skinner is funny and of course an accomplished actress, but she's still much better on her own. Walter Abel acts suitably imposed upon as Ritchard's host. Charlie Ruggles makes an interesting character out of the dull role...
...with the keenest interest and sympathy? So comprehensive a survey is bound to run the risk of error in a few details; and when a writer is so clearly devoted to his subject, he may be excused for allowing his private opinions to color his presentation occasionally. But since Mr. Titcomb stresses the importance of student-faculty relations within this sphere, please allow me to clarify the record at one small point...
...article--rightly, I think--sees no serious danger of what it calls "interference from above." However, it does cite a few rare "instances," the first of these involving the Theater Workshop's projected Hamlet of 1947. And Mr. Titcomb continues: "Under pressure from Professor Levin, who predicted it would be 'an artistic and financial failure,' the group gave up the project (Levin was more recently proven wrong on the first point but right on the second...
...also glad that Mr. Titcomb thought their production an artistic success. What I would question here is not his opinion but his logic. It does not follow that, if the same exacting play had been produced ten years before by a totally different group, it would have been equally successful. What it would have been like, for better or worse, we shall never know. But we may well regard the Theater Workshop's change of mind as a responsible act of self-criticism. Harry Levin, Professor of English and Comparative Literature...