Word: amfitheatrof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Plans for tomorrow's helicopter arrival of Magda Gabor, the "beautiful recluse," crystallized yesterday as the Metropolitan District Commission authorized a landing on the Charles River banks near Leverett House, Blood Drive Publicity Director Erik Amfitheatrof '54 announced last night...
...matter of Mr. Amfitheatrof's quotation (in his article on the Salzburg Seminar) should be cleared up. I am the American student he refers to; but the sentiment he baldly states is not mine. When he visited me to discuss the Seminar, I offered to entertain with him an account of my opinions after a summer abroad. Our conversation, I said, was off the record; he asked that it be on so that he might write a fair complete, constructive article, I agreed. In the course of my monologue, I said that thought it seemed inconceivable and illiberal, the Germans...
...seven American participants returned from last summer's general session of the Salzburg Seminar in American Studies (the eighth having remained in Europe for a year of study), we read with considerable surprise and consternation Mr. Amfitheatrof's article of November 21. In it he has included several misstatements of fact and has also misconstrued the tenor of the Seminar...
...central passages (also referred to in the sub headline), Mr. Amfitheatrof states that". . . national tension undermined last summer's Seminars for the first time. The Germans and the Austrians, with a half of the Italian block, developed a hostility for the Americans, Belgians, French, and English, and the other half of the Italians. . . . the reappearance of national feeling at the Seminar corresponds with the overall situation in Europe, where the right wing groups discredited by the war are beginning to form again." We find these statements completely unfounded. Participants did not come to the Seminar chiefly as representatives of national...
...experience at the Salzburg Seminar was not of a pseudo-United Nations composed of wrangling member nations, as Mr. Amfitheatrof's misnomer, "General Assembly" (instead of general summer session), might suggest; nor was it by any means of an "intellectual Point Four," with the inequality of intellect and the condescension that this term implies. Obviously, there was discussion and disagreement, as is to be desired in a closely-confined intellectual community. But this vibrant atmosphere. Far from leading to the formation of hostile camps rather served as the basis for the uniquely enriching undertaking which the Seminars...