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...needs a series of at least three lectures if you're going to say anything constructive," Theodore K. Rabb, assistant professor of History, said last night. "Presumably next year, the lecturer can really develop a theme." Rabb himself will lecture on the Renaissance, Reformation, and the 17th century...
...Blithe Spirits. The Lodge following is decidedly amateur. Closest to being professional politicians are Lodge's son George, 36, a former Assistant Secretary of Labor, who shares with his father the distinction of having been defeated for the U.S. Senate by a Kennedy, and New York Lawyer Maxwell Rabb, 53, an Eisenhower man who served as Ike's Cabinet secretary and White House adviser on minority affairs. Rabb accepted the job of national director of the Draft Lodge Committee after former Republican National Committee Chairman Leonard Hall turned it down. His strategy is simple in concept, but difficult...
...Rabb, for one, believes that Lodge should stay right on in Saigon, waging war against Communism and declining to come home and get mixed up in the political battle. On this point, there is disagreement within the loose Lodge organization. Robert Mullen, a Washington public relations man now working as national coordinator of the Draft Lodge Committee, argues that the ambassador ought to come home right after Oregon...
...What Rabb cannot be forgiven is his periodic snipping of the text and his wholesale excision of the Prologue scene. The resulting running-time is barely more than two hours--far below maximum tolerance. The fact that Shaw wrote an alternative Prologue-sermon thirteen years later does not vitiate the importance of the original Prologue...
...purely practical concern--by starting the performance with Caesar's apostrophe to the Sphinx, Rabb has guaranteed that this great poetic aria will be ruined by the scramble of late comers to their seats...