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...LITTLE LIKE Lopahin buying the cherry orchard--nobody yippeed. When the Corporation named Robert S. Brustein to head the Loeb Drama Center, most students nodded, a few smiled, many winced. I thought it was cause for celebration, but suspicion of Brustein had become fashionable in many Harvard theatrical circles. He was coming to take their time away, to seize their space, to cook them and eat them for breakfast, as he told a gathering at the Signet Society the night before his appointment was announced. He didn't get many laughs...
...November 5, the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC) voted five to two to advise the Corporation to reject Brustein's proposal. After Brustein was approved, one of the Corporation members said he wasn't aware that the HRDC had taken a vote. So much for student opinion...
Indeed, the recent history of results says something more about our effectiveness--based not only on our "representation" on these committees, but also on our ad-hoc attempts at expressing our opinions and making them felt. I need only point to the Engelhard Library, divestiture, Brustein or the Core as a few examples to demonstrate the truth of this...
...Robert S. Brustein says he will not come to Harvard unit the spring of 1986, and that he will not take over the Loeb until "people start acting like they love me more." Labor czar Wayne Woodrow "Killer Woody" Hayes replies that he will appeal to the National Labor Relations Board to void the "adoration clause" in Brustein's contract...
...coming year, before his appointment takes effect, Brustein will move to Cambridge to observe student drama and make plans for the Loeb ... and, of course, plug for Harvard at The Game...