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Stage presents for Brustein, who'll master the Loeb...
...fall of 1968, Robert S. Brustein, dean of the Yale School of Drama, showed up in Cambridge with the wife and kids to root for Old Eli in the Harvard-Yale game. But the Brustein family found the Cambridge fans' enthusiasm more to their liking and ended up waving a Crimson pennant instead...
...Brustein can officially cheer from the Harvard bleachers now that the Board of Overseers approved his appointment as director of the Loeb Drama Center, starting in the fall of 1980. Both the Corporation and the Overseers voted Monday to appoint Brustein director, allowing him to lead an undergraduate drama program and base a professional repertory company at the Loeb...
Toope remarks that those who support Brustein assume Brustein will support undergraduate theater at Harvard, that "he will be transformed into a crusader of undergraduate rights." I support Brustein's presence here but I hope he would do no such thing. Toope also chastises Brustein's supporters for assuming the new director will make an effort to "expand theater participation at Harvard." Presumably Toope means the new director could, if he chose, use his repertory company to train amateur but interested students and bring more students planning a theater career to Harvard in the first place. Again, although I support...
Toope and others have suggested ways in which Brustein could burnish his tarnished image among undergraduates. It would be nice if the man took all of this thoughtful criticism to heart. But I am not particularly sanguine. Looking at the matter realistically, taking a modest view of the impression undergraduate concerns can (and should) make on university policies and plans in general, we miss the boat if we categorically reject Brustein and his proposals. It would now be best to put aside antagonisms and welcome Brustein and the exciting possibilities he has suddenly opened up. Whitney Davis...