Word: mr
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whether because of the erratic distribution of the second class mail or for some other cause, your edition of May seventh was not delivered to me in Baltimore with the result that I have not until today seen the article of Mr. James K. Glassman called "A Report on the Future of the University." Because that article quotes from a report of an interview with me which appeared in the Baltimore Sun but fails to note the corrections which were later published in the journal, I hope that you will permit me to set the record straight...
...Glassman in the May 7th Crimson Supplement on the Future of the University, the Cambridge Electron Accelerator (CEA) is discussed as an example of Federal money being spent at Harvard. Indeed, because of its $4,500,000 budget in Fy 1969 which comes entirely from the Federal Government, Mr. Glassman has chosen a very good example...
...absolutely no exposition, begins in fact with a vow to ignore the past and sticks by it. The future is another quantity ignored, and the play between turns out in consequence to be, among other things, smartly constructed. Instead of handing us tiresomely detailed, hideously flawed cases for treatment, Mr. Bloch throws out two empty characters and spends his nine scenes in an effort to make them worth knowing. He has set and filled in the process two hypothetical criteria for the organic play, that it neither begin with a rehash of fetal murmurings nor end on the expressway...
THESE skeletons, the stuff of thirties dramas and fifties movies, are not the first time installed in the flesh of a Harvard play. Others with similar concerns have for all their efforts wrought neither more nor less than soap opera. But Mr. Bloch knows how to put dialogue together, not so that his characters sound like real people--God forbid--but so they sound, at best, like prize people. I think twice when one character asks hi sister, "Why did you let him touch you?" and she replies, "Why do people go to museums? Women don't make decisions like...
...mind," said humpty the dumpty, who, by this time, had been mistaken and identified mistakenly as one of those participating in the standing under the miss from baltimore. "you duck-egg!" the tommygunner burst out, "how can you talk of ORDER! a point of order! a point of order! mr. share-man, when will you allow me one poise of ardor? one piece of order? one, please, of otherness. GIVE ME A CHANTS!? -- . . . all this and more is what Billy the Surf Bum saw in the now-opened capsule on the end of the dart he was holding...