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...forsaken by Broadway in its pursuit of commercial success. So far, Brustein's most visible product is a protest play called Viet Rock, which moved to an off-Broadway theater in Manhattan and was panned for its stacked-cards plotting. But Yale's Associate Drama Dean Gordon Rogoff finds value in critical flops. The university theater's function, he says, is to be "the one remaining place where one can afford to fail...
...Editorial staffers are of an even riper age than Forward readers, whose average age is 50. As in the old days, reporters are still appointed for life; Editor Lazar Fogelman, who has been with the paper since 1927, is 71; Business Manager Adolph Held is 77; Literary Critic Harry Rogoff is 80. In a period of instant cookery, the Forward instructs its readership on the fermentation of wine. Space is still reserved for humor of a high Jewish flavor: "Sam: There is nothing better than to lie in bed in the morning and ring for a servant. Jonah...
Total Security. The mock-hero of Author Ernst Pawel's From the Dark Tower unintentionally reminds the reader that Jonahs as well as Ahabs go looking for their private whales. Abe Rogoff is a middle-aged Jonah just asking to be swallowed. For ten years he has been a snickering outsider ("to take business seriously is a kind of disease") camouflaged as a docile insider in the pseudo-Gothic spires of Manhattan's Tower Mutual Life Insurance Co. Abe's disease might be diagnosed as undulant barricade fever, the nostalgic complaint of an ex-free-lover...
ARTHUR H. ROGOFF Long Island City...
...association of 160 Jewish leaders chosen at yearly elections, was never organized for profit, now has an editorial staff of 40. Since a reporter, after a six months' trial, is hired for life, 25 staffers have worked there more than 30 years, including Acting Editor Harry Rogoff, 67. As Editor Cahan has become less active, Rogoff has taken over more & more of his duties. Business boss is General Manager Alexander Kahn, a genial lawyer whose friends describe him as "the East Side's ambassador to the uptown Jews...