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...from M.I.T., and Bertram Brockhouse from McMaster University in Ontario, Canada, helped perfect neutron-scattering techniques in the 1940s and '50s. Today, nearly a half-century later, they have Nobels to show for it. Ironically, the man who did the pioneering work in the field, Shull's mentor Ernest Wollan, died in 1984. By Nobel rules, the prize is never awarded posthumously...
...glad to see Jennifer Wollan's article in the February 14th issue of the Crimson concerning the "not different enough" selection of plays being offered by the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club on the Loeb Drama Center Mainstage...
...would like to make a few points here, in reference to Ms. Wollan's article. First, we are primarily an educational institution. The Loeb provides an incredible opportunity in allowing us to work in a professional space with little "commercial" restraints, an opportunity which when we graduate will never be given to us again. We are not simply "any good residential theatre"--we have a responsibility to the community to provide good theater, but we have an equally large if not greater responsibility to provide the fullest education possible for student community. I am not saying that the production...
...Wollan's largest difficulty seems to be with the small number of musicals that have appeared on the Mainstage recently. First, the Mainstage is a large, cavernous, expanse of a theater: this presents difficult acoustical problems. Obviously, it is essential to hear performers in a musical distinctly and clearly. Second, musicals that would fill the physical expanse of the Mainstage are often too big. We do have a limited budget, augment of time, technical expertise, and labor, there is often a worry that these constraints will not to do the musical production justice. Thirdly, musicals are "component" works: acting, singing...
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