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...Professor of English Robert Brustein, director of the Loeb Drama Center, says he is actively seeking funding for a "drama conservatory" for graduate-level students to study with his American Repertory Theater...
...think there has traditionally been sufficient respect at Harvard for the arts," says Brustein, a theatrical director who brought the American Repertory Theater with him from Yale in 1979. "But I don't think it's an unchangeable situation. It's changed a lot in the last five years. A lot of people have discovered the awe of the arts...
...Already, Brustein says, "Harvard is beginning to attract a different kind of generation of Harvard students" more interested in the arts...
...Despite Brustein's comment, of course, a lack of academic arts offerings didn't seem to deter dedicated Harvard and Radcliffe students in the past. Without University sanction, students founded the Pierian Sodality (now the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra), the Glee Club, and a multitude of other art performance groups...
...sponsors and its opinions from editors, including Walter Lippmann and Edmund Wilson. Peretz, a Harvard social sciences teacher who inherited some money and whose wife is an heiress, revamped both the magazine's politics and its eclectic cultural section: it covers primarily scholarly books, theater (reviews by Robert Brustein), movies (reviews by Stanley Kauffmann) and, says Literary Editor Leon Wieseltier, "anything I can find about Israel, the nuclear issue or the ballet...