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...short, is never off duty. That is his pride and his eventual torment. He is a compulsively strict constructionist of culture. A somewhat prickly man, the reader will guess. Well, George Jean Nathan anticipated that objection: "The critic is no gentleman, and the gentleman is no critic...
...Nathan M. Pusey, President of Harvard University
...Last year the Securities and Exchange Commission accused company officials of manipulating the stock and making misleading statements about proposed mergers. For a while, Parvin/ Dohrmann stock was suspended from trading. The SEC claimed that, at the behest of Company Chairman Delbert Coleman, Parvin/Dohrmann had paid Washington influence-peddler Nathan Voloshen $50,000 in a vain attempt to raise the ban. In February, Coleman resigned and trading was resumed. Parvin/ Dohrmann reported a profit of $10.2 million for last year, compared with a $618,000 loss in 1968. Its casinos made all of the money, but company officers said last...
...NATHAN was striking as Clytemnestra, a part which suited her gaunt figure and certainly her shrill, frenzied voice. Al Ranzio's nasal monotone was bothersome at times, but as Zeus, he combined all the self-assurance and comic undertones which Sartre wrote into the role. Norma Levin had surely the most difficult assignment as Electra. She captured the guilelessness of Sartre's very ordinary, very energetic heroine; she also got to speak some of Sartre's most beautiful set-pieces, the little speeches of reminiscence which form a motif in the play...
Other top finishers included LyndonJohnson, Lawrence J. Peter himself, Pope Paul, Julius T. Hoffman, and Nathan M. Pusey...