Word: alaine
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ellison, who won the 1953 National Book Award for fiction for his novel, "Invisible Man," spoke along with three other prominent black American scholars in a three-and-a-half-hour symposium held in tribute to Alain L. Locke '08, one of the University's first black graduates...
MEMORIAL CHURCH. Marie-Claire Alan, organist, in recital. Works of Bach, Guilain, Jehan Alain. Free. Friday, November...
Marie-Claire Alain returns to Harvard to play the Fisk organ at Memorial Church. She is one of the world's great organists and will be worth hearing...
THIS IS A film of words," warns the narrator who begins Le Retour d'Afrique. "Words can be an act themselves, or they can substitute for action." When the words act well, Alain Tanner's new film sparkles with the same warm humor that he demonstrated in his last film, La Salamandre, a masterpiece. But this is occasional, and for the most part words are only surrogates for a new vision that Tanner fails to conjure...
...years it has been the preoccupation of French novelists of the nouveau roman-Alain Robbe-Grillet, Mark Saporta, et al.73151;to build their fictions exclusively from facts, objects, appearances, surfaces and the impressions of the moment. Even when the method works, the result is long-winded; but it can have the illusionist beauty of pointillism that only makes sense as the onlooker steps back...