Word: poet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...these words would have had little meaning for John Reed. As poet, war correspondent, Communist, and Harvardman, John Reed saw life as one Big Game. You could lose the game, but it wasn't worth dying for. Life was too exciting...
...worth of plays, he has had some 20 hits, 30 misses. This fall he is already responsible for two flops: Howie and A Handful of Fire. But balancing them, his Producers' Theater has brought in Eugene O'Neill's ponderous success, A Touch of the Poet. And other Stevens projects include such items as The Pleasure of His Company, with Cornelia Otis Skinner, The Man in the Dog Suit, with Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy, and Daarlin' Man, a musical version of O'Casey's Juno and the Paycock. Some of these may soon...
That is saying a lot. In the two decades since Max Gordon staged Dodsworth for $59,000 and saw the show move into the black as soon as it began to gross $13,200 a week on the road, production costs have doubled. A Touch of the Poet must take in a minimum of $25,000 a week to break even; A Handful of Fire lost its backers $150,000 before the books were closed. The productions with which Stevens is connected this season will cost a total of $2,000,000 before they all get to Broadway...
...last half century, while speech has elsewhere become a much more formidable academic discipline, Harvard's original dislike for the "elocutionary movement" remains unchanged by contemporary circumstances. The current Boylston Professor, Archibald MacLeish, is a poet, a situation reflecting Harvard's current lack of interest in speech training. Even though Professor MacLeish has expressed his support for greater teaching of the speech arts, the University's speech training is conducted in a sadly limited manner...
Bullitt said that two other men, producer-director Stephen A. Aaron '57 and poet Robert Lowell have been unofficially selected as Honorary Associates of the Common Room, positions which do not require a Corporation vote...