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When questions come up about which plays to select, or about incipient production problems, or about work on a current production, Champan and his two colleagues are there to help answer them. The three have no veto power. They belong to the Faculty Committee on Dramatics, which can, but rarely does, veto choices of plays; it is mainly Chapman who keeps the Committee informed on Loeb activities...
Foujita is still painting. Last week he joined that select group, with Matisse, Jean Cocteau and Le Corbusier, who have created their own chapels. He was baptized only seven years ago (he took the name Leonard in honor of Da Vinci), and with age he decided, "It is time to think about a spiritual legacy." He convinced the director of the Mumm champagne firm to put up $300,000 to build and landscape the chapel above their wine caves near Reims. Foujita did 1,076 sq. ft. of frescoes inside the 47-ft.-long chapel, including a side chapel honoring...
Barney Frank '62, Special Assistant for Undergraduate Affairs at the Kennedy Institute said that anybody at the college could benefit from these sessions. On Friday he will select at random some 60 members for each meeting...
...Investigation by Peter Weiss. If one had to select the single most infamous word for the most infamous deed of the 20th century, the word would probably be "Auschwitz." Of the 6,000,000 Jews murdered during World War II nearly half died in that concentration camp in southern Poland. Peter Weiss, who authored last season's Marat Sade, has now edited the court records of the Frankfurt atrocity trials of 1964 and 1965, at which those who ran Auschwitz were the defendants. He has put together a catalogue of horrors...
...Deputy Chief Justice Moshe Silberg believes that the time has come for a new Halakah code that would be "a secular legal creation based on principles of Jewish law with a clear dissociation from all the archaic layers that were heaped on Jewish law. The task will be to select the wheat from the chaff, to cut away the dried branches from the tree, which is still full of life...