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...show, the comedians split amicably?only to rejoin when Elaine wrote A Matter of Position, a comedy starring Mike as a manic market researcher depressively afraid that people would hate him. They did. They also hated the play, which folded in Philadelphia after 17 performances. "It was not a pleasant experience," admits Mike. "I behaved very badly toward Elaine." She abandoned performing for about six years. Mike, as he says, "might have been Dick Cavett today" except for Saint Subber's stomach. The producer owned a play by a TV comedy writer named Neil Simon. He remembered a funnyman...
Dean May, rising amidst scattered applause and hisses in what he called one of his "few pleasant duties," awarded the three annual Ames awards, to students, who, in the opinion of the class, had shown the qualities of leadership and resourcefulness...
...modest man and did not elaborate on the frustrations of fundraising, cutting red tape, and getting people to accept new ideas. However, Pusey talked at length when I asked him what he considered his major blunders and which aspects of the job he considered the least pleasant...
After Pusey paused briefly and sighed, he said his major blunders "would obviously be in the area of mistakes in judgment about people." He said the least pleasant aspect of his job is "having to accept on this campus the kinds of activities the extreme radical groups have introduced the last several years. We've tried to make clear that people are entitled to have any opinions they want," Pusey said. But "certain actions that interfere with the actions of other people are totally unacceptable." He said that Harvard students "ought to be ashamed to be numbered among these self...
...Kahn Jr. 37 of the New Yorker spent a year here doing research for his book. It was originally titled It Can't Happen Here; so much for analysis. Harvard Through Change and Storm (New York: W. W. Norton, $7.50), as the revised version was called, is a pleasant enough romp through Harvard lore, past and present-the kind of book that gets written every five years or so, and written well every 20. You're probably due for one about...