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...devoted to a dramatic reading of Woollcott's criticism, an enviable talent he sharpened on the heads of playwrights, actors, friends, and other critics. Finding himself the butt of a rival's column, Woollcott retorted, "An empty taxi pulled up in front of the theater and George Gene Nathan got out." In a review of a play called Number 7, the playwright, he wrote, "has misjudged by five." In another, he suggested that "the lead actor be gently, but firmly, shot at dawn." Yet, he was as lavish in his praise as he was vicious in his derision. Priding himself...
...reputation for getting things done, had a vision, and he pushed for it doggedly. Within several years of his swearing-in, concentration and distribution requirements were here to stay. So were almost all the academic rules and institutions that today are fixtures. And, in 1929, Lowell attained what Nathan M. Pusey, one of his successors, has called "the crowning achievement in Lowell's long and fruitful effort to reform undergraduate education." With a large grant from Edward Harkness, disgruntled Yalie, Lowell established the House system. Within four years, Lowell, then 72 years old, had stepped down, content. In his revolutionary...
...their latest outings, the three on going heroes of note in American fiction have succeeded in a variety of styles. Philip Roth's Nathan Zuckerman (Zuckerman Unbound) is famous; Updike's Harry Angstrom (Rabbit Is Rich) shuttles prosperously from Toyota dealership to marriage bed; and Thomas Berger's hefty and tenuous moralist, Carlo Reinhart, now 54, has risen above his customary blundering to become an Ohio Quixote tilting at Cuisinarts. Indeed, the redoubtable lummox actually triumphs over fate, women and his amazing girth...
...last permanent head of the Population Sciences Department, Nathan Keyfitz, Andelot Professor of Sociology in Arts and Sciences and of Demography in Public Health, yesterday called Bell "a very able man with a very distinguisehd career.... He's forceful and penetrating and accustomed to getting things done," Keyfitz, who served on the committee that chose Bell, said...
...Sullivan was serving as mayor--largely an honorary position, except in crises--in 1969, when student demonstrators broke into Harvard's University Hall to protest the school's involvement in the Vietnam War. The students had broken in during the morning, and by 2 p.m., Sullivan says, Harvard president Nathan M. Pusey '28 decided he wanted the police to clear the building immediately...