Word: questionable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Joel F. Henning '61, president of the Harvard Dramatic Club, opened the question of University control of productions in the Loeb Theatre. He cautioned that the necessary and desirable pooling of technical personnel, costumes, and stage scenery, together with the loss of sole responsibility for selecting plays might tend to render College-wide theatrical groups superfluous...
Whether Robinson's parade of big names can come near to sustaining a Bergman level of virtuosity for a full season is a question of performance. Two weeks ago Robinson came close to failure with The Jazz Singer, starring Jerry Lewis. But Producer Robinson has a reputation for imagination and drive, carved as program boss of CBS, a job he held for a dozen years, until last summer. It was Robinson who patiently brought along young producers and writers, prodded them to "think offbeat," helped develop such CBS shows as Playhouse go, See It Now, Twentieth Century...
Needs & Wants. Not all Casbah scholars are social scientists. Recent alumni include M.I.T.'s noted Mathematician Claude Shannon and Literary Critic Mark Schorer, who worked on his biography of Novelist Sinclair Lewis. "Here I need no library," said Harvard Linguist Roman Jakobson. "If I have a question in psychology, anthropology, sociology, economics, literature, I just go down a few doors and knock: 'May I come...
...similar question is raised about the novel's hero, Physicist Sebastian Bloch, in whom readers will find it hard not to see at least some Oppenheimer traits: he has "a universal mind," an otherworldly face and a mesmeric personality. Bloch also belongs to a Communist apparatus, but carries no party card. Young Mark Ampler, a U.S. security agent who enrolls at Bloch's university to keep tab on the physicist promptly falls under his spell. Pearl Harbor packs Mark off to war and sets Sebastian fervently to work on the Bolt, or the Monster, as Author Chevalier interchangeably...
...Sellout. In the novel, Mark innocently relays a story that U.S. security agents have concocted with the deliberate purpose of trapping Physicist Bloch in a lapse of loyalty. But the question of why Sebastian indicts his friend with a damaging yarn of his own is only glancingly answered. Chevalier hints that merely working on the A-bomb has corrupted Sebastian's moral sense. Another suggestion is that he has "sold out" to a nebulous power elite and forgotten the "little people." This charge reduces itself to guilt by dissociation: Bloch's crime is not so much libeling...