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Refusing to answer, Snow found plenty of defenders. Author William Gerhardi called Leavis "the Himmler of Literature," Dame Edith Sitwell suggested that Leavis was jealous of Snow's fame, and Lord Boothby (former rector of St. Andrews) wrote in the Spectator: "There are plenty of beetles in Cambridge. But, without doubt, Dr. Leavis has now qualified for the post of Chief Beetle." Yet, although one critic called Snow's novels "intellectual soap opera," few discussed Leavis' basic concern, the tendency of technology to suffocate humanities...
...inaugural offering, the VTW presented the world premiere of William Gerhardi's first play, I Was a King in Babylon. Observers agreed that it was a good production of a bad work. So the VTW decided to let the student body at large guide its next choice. A poll showed that the students favored modern plays over classical ones by 5 to 1, and harbored a definite antipathy to student scripts. As to specific playwrights, the poll yielded the following, in order of preference: Shaw, Shakespeare, O'Neill, Coward, Ibsen, Wilde, Anderson, Odets, Chekhov, and Wilder...
...what-every-Jung-man-should-know. Moreover, its prose is so plain that a roomful of safecrackers and their molls might well while away the hours before the gelignite goes up by browsing through the work. Its most startling feature is a questionnaire jig-sawed by Authors William Gerhardi (holder of the Czarist Order of St. Stanislav) and Prince Leopold Loewenstein ("a graduate of the University of Vienna"). Although both authors lack professional psychiatric qualifications, their couchside manner is soothing as a deep trance, their text chockablock with neat quotes from Greek Philosopher ("Know Thyself") Thales, Robert ("To see oursels...
...Authors Gerhardi and Loewenstein have obviously spent many hours of near-simian ingenuity on Analyze Yourself. Though many of their conclusions are demonstrably false ("Don Juan or donkey, we are all alike in our love-making") and sometimes alarming ("Every male in the grip of passion behaves . . . like an impetuous bull"), others are shrewd and accurate, e.g., "As an artist ... do not labor under any illusion that society will safeguard or sustain...
...present the HTW is coasting along on a reputation it started to earn with its extra-massive production of "St. Joan" last year. Its first effort was a unique artistic and financial failure which froze Rindge Tech auditorium, Gerhardi's "I Was a King in Babylon...