Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Professor Chamberlin was more than an originalthinking economist. He was a man who could make foreign students feel at home in Cambridge and Harvard students feel at home in economics. Though he had firm economic and political convictions, he never angered when his students sought to contradict his novel theories. He taught the mintellectual openmindedness by treating their ideas with a respect and careful scrutiny which they never forgot. From his tutorials and seminars emerged many prominent economists and professors...
...SAILOR FROM GIBRALTAR, by Marguerite Duras. An early novel that tells a shaggy-dog story about a mysterious woman, rich and beautiful, who roams the seven seas looking for a long-lost lover...
...Florida insurance man who travels frequently by air has a novel way of keeping close to his large suitcase. He arrives at the airport with the bag manacled to his wrist. "Cape Kennedy courier-top security" he whispers to the gate attendant, whereupon man and luggage emplane, hand in handle...
...Loeb's Crime and Punishment is a collection of scenes and not a play. Director Joseph Everingham has worked with Marcel Dubois' adaptation of Dostoevsyk's novel (a fact which the Loeb program is peculiarly reticent to acknowledge. One hopes they've paid some royalties). Scenes and characters are plucked out of the novel, told somewhat arbitrarily to line up acts, and sent out to do their paces...
...almost insurmountable problem to condense and excerpt a tightly structured novel down to a play. The philosophic discussions and illuminating encounters of Crime and Punishment must play out against a double suspense: the detective Porfiry closing in on Raskolnikov, and Raskolnikov's mind closing in on itself. At the Loeb there is no strength to either line of tension. The scenes are excerpted with little attempt to crowd in exposition, which makes them good theater, but it also destroys the time sense of the play. You just can't be sure when things are happening, hours or days apart...