Word: presentation
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...stage should be adaptable enough to accomodate a classical or modern play, and to present it in a manner consistent with the style in which it is written. This means a platform or "open" stage will be required as well as a proscenium stage, and that the proscenium opening should be flexible. The two units should be capable of use together or separately. Part, if not all, of the platform, should be hydraulically controlled so that several levels may be provided...
...Stuart Hughes, professor of History and Faculty sponsor of Tocsin, said "There are built-in reasons for the Soviet Union not going to war." Among these, he noted, are the Russians' memory of the devastation and horror of World War II, and the present ideological conflict between Russia and China on the necessity of war for spreading communism...
Tocsin was also addressed by Richard J. Barnet '52, research fellow in the Russian Research Center, author of Who Wants Disarmament? Barnet discussed the history of disarmament efforts and the moral, technical, and political aspects of the present problem...
...Joyce and Brecht and O'Neill are and were enormous successes--far more successful than the great of other generations have been in their lifetimes. And it is not inconceivable at all that the big stage at the Loeb, by dedicating itself to "plays for audiences," may some day present a truly and wholly successful play by a young man now unknown which will not only hold its audience but open to it a new perspective on the world. I for one, should not be unhappy...
...Loeb Center should be so used as to allow all Harvard theatrical groups maximum opportunity to present the best of their work--and only the best--for the largest possible audiences. (Inferior work should be presented in Sanders Theater, where nothing looks good anyway...