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Other scholars who will soon stop hearing from Harvard's financial office each month include Thomas Professor of English and American Literature Daniel Aaron, Porter Professor of English Morton W. Bloomfield, Porter Professor of Fine Arts Sydney J. Freedberg, Wales Professor of Sanskrit Daniel H. H. Ingalls '36, Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature Harry T. Levin '33, Robinson Professor of Mathematics Lynn H. Loomis, and Porter Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature Albert B. Lord...
...Rockwell's discussion of serialism--a non-traditional musical system championed by Arnoid Schoenberg--is prefaced by the revealing remark. "But it was serialism more than populism that impeded the evolution of truly American music." Rockwell can't decide which side he is on, the side of serialist Milton Babbitt of Princeton--who once wrote an essay entitled. "Who; Cares if You Listen?"--or the avowedly populist Elliott Carter--whom he accuses of having a "more calculated attitude towards world success" than Babbitt. His classical composers are placed in a musical Catch--22; either they are anti-public...
...interior placed the timber wolf on ts endangered species list. But un der pressure from Minnesota authorities, the department downgraded the wolfs status to a threatened species, allowing eradication of so-called problem wolves, like the pair that strolled into a mining company lunchroom in the town of Babbitt last year...
Harry T. Levin '33, Babbitt Professor of Literature, will finish his last semester teaching at Harvard this fall after 53 years...
Just how more equitably to sort out what Arizona Governor Bruce Babbitt calls "the intergovernmental omelet of scrambled responsibilities" was the subject of much debate last week. Babbitt, a Democrat, and Tennessee's Alexander, a Republican, introduced what they termed a "swap" proposal: Washington would take over all responsibility for Medicaid, while the states would assume total fiscal control of primary and secondary education. Though the idea met with considerable enthusiasm, the conferees agreed not to advocate formally anything so drastic until its full implications could be evaluated. Instead they adopted a more general resolution, offering to accept...