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After reading the account in the Harvard Summer News of the most recent "teach-in." I wish to commend its sponsors. Truly profound thought was required to select mediocre burlesque comic Norman Mailer as a participant. Probably no other speaker could better garbage mouth the president of the United States, and in so doing, totally demean the stature of a Harvard forum. Was Mr. Mailer's diatribe necessary to insure "full academic freedom," "scholarly inquiry," or "full discussion of the issues...
...wife Fanny upon her arrival in Washington and her first dinner at the White House, where she was enthusiastically greeted by President Theodore Roosevelt. Mrs. Bowen had had some qualms about picking that particular passage: it might, she thought, be rather sentimental, while other festival readers would likely select passages of much more "social significance." But having thought it all over, Mrs. Bowen decided, "What the hell," and recited her own favorite...
Each year Sarmi makes two trips to Switzerland, France and Italy to select his fabrics. He has the lace re-embroidered with silver and gold, the chiffon treated to produce a raised velvet pattern, the dress wools interwoven with rows of iridescent paillettes. Often he designs his own: one year it was photographs of raindrops screened onto fine silk, another time it was magnified butterfly wings...
...seemed to be declining. Together with David Maynard, Laura Esterman, and John Lithgow, he worked out a proposal to place control of the club in the hands of a non-elective, self-perpetuating executive committee. The four of them were to form the committee, which would have power to select all plays for main stage performance. After a discussion with Robert Chapman, director of the Loeb, George Hamlin, associate director, and Daniel Seltzer, then on sabbatical and now associate director, they invited Timothy Mayer, president of the Harvard Gilbert and Sullivan Players, to join the committee as "best representing...
...list of plays and directors to the Faculty Committee on the Theatre and the committee had indicated which it approved. If the students disliked the Faculty's choices, they could haggle, through the Faculty directors of the Loeb, who are members of the committee. The proposed executive committee would select the plays and directors in consultation with the Faculty directors, who would have no vote. But the season still had to get the Faculty committee's approval. Mayer and company promoted the idea that the committee's self-perpetuating status, although unfortunate, was a necessary student concession to balance...