Word: americans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Carlos Chavez, Mexican composer and Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry for 1958, hinted last night at the direction twentieth century music is taking, and sketched the pedigree of Latin American music at "A Latin American Composer," the first of the six Norton Lectures...
Carlos Chavez, recognized as one of the foremost Latin American music scholars, will deliver the first Charles Eliot Norton Lecture this evening at 8:30 p.m. in Sanders Theatre...
Tonight's lecture, "A Latin American Composer," begins the series of six entitled "The Musical Thought." On Nov. 18 Chavez will speak on "Poetic Communication," and on Dec. 17 his topic will be "Form in Music." There will be three more lectures in the spring...
...Ugly American, by William J. Lederer and Eugene Burdick. A slashing though all too simon-simple polemic, in the guise of fiction, about the men and women who have taken up the white man's burden for the U.S. in Southeast Asia...
Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov. This superb novel shuttles between the lyrical, the hilarious and the horrifying to tell of a middle-aging emigre's love for a "nymphet," with highly ironic variations on the theme of American innocence and European corruption...