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...hammer and that horrible wooden stake?"--is astonishing. It's a willingness understandably not shared by most of the rest of the company--they have lots of lines like "I broke in when I heard the dogs howling" and "How is your daughter and her 'nervous prostration'" and "Yes, Renfield, I offer you your soul in exchange for what you know"--but everyone carries on unflinchingly. Anne Ames and Nicholas Shorter put on fine cockney accents, and John Phillips as Renfield, whose hobby is eating flies, keeps threatening to forsake mere competence for genuine creepiness. John S. Scherlis, as Dracula...
Lindsay Davis, this Dracula's director, provides a background soundtrack, but his inability to think of more than two or three ways for a vampire to sidle up menacingly behind his victim's back means that the sidlings quickly become repetitious. Less excusable is the distressing obviousness with which Renfield eavesdrops on everyone's conversations: the Victorians may have been dumb, but surely they weren't deaf and blind...
...English; Ralph N. Maud, English; Paul T. McElroy, Physics; Abbott R. Miller, Chemistry; Bruce H. Morgan, Physics; Ivan Nabokoff, English; John R. O'Brien, Government; Roger S. Peterson, Biology; Stephen R. Petschek, History and Literature; Glen A. Rebka, Jr., Physics; Walter R. Reitman, Slavic Languages and Literatures; Richard L. Renfield, Slavic Languages and Literatures; Rodman D. Rhodes, English; Robert Rosenman, Government...
Richard L. Renfield '53 of Adams House and Staten Island, New York, has been awarded the George B. Sohier Prize for 1952-53, it was announced at the last meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...prize is awarded to that successful honors candidate, from either Harvard or Radcliffe, submitting the best thesis in the fields of English or Modern Literatures. Renfield won the award for his thesis entitled, "The Winter Notes of Summer Impressions of Dostoevsky...