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...suggestions in the annual reports--the development of a smaller, well-defined graduate school, the construction of a school of government--have taken hold. In the arts, Bok was primarily responsible for saving the Visual and Environmental Studies program, creating the Office for the Arts, and bringing Robert S. Brustein from Yale to direct the Loeb Drama Center. In all his writings, Bok has stressed the need for interdisciplinary programs and worked actively--as he did as dean of the Law School--to link policy-oriented schools. Bok believes that while the each-tub-on-its-own-bottom philosophy works...
...have to squint hard to find inconsistencies like these, though, and aurally if not physically the music works. More curious and ironic is the presence onstage of Robert Brustein, ART's director and a philosopher of the theater in his own right, as Theseus, that unrepentant skeptic with no faith in drama or poetry. This, after all, is the character who delivers the famous speech lumping lovers, poets and madmen together as creatures of imagination, flighty and deluded...
...requires a powerful imagination indeed to suppress an involuntary wry smile when you hear Brustein's Theseus remark, of actors, "The best in this kind are but shadows." Perhaps--just as Shakespeare's play is "only" a dream. At the Loeb, both shadows and dreams seem, if only while the curtain is up, to take on a radiant and tangible form all their...
...goes as Brustein hopes, Harvard will demonstrate that commitment to drama as soon as next fall. Brustein said yesterday he will submit names of instructors and detailed descriptions for his proposed courses to the Committee on Dramatics at its meeting on April...
Some Faculty members expressed concern that drama courses for credit may eventually lead to the establishment of a concentration and a department. Although he noted that Brustein would like to see that happen, Bowersock said at the meeting, "There are no plans for the moment. That is not a part of what we're proposing now because we want to see how this works...