Word: backgrounds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Missile Boss-and Minuteman Boss-Major General Bernard A. Schriever (TIME, April 1). The concept was developed and presented by a brilliant colonel, Edward N. Hall, 43, a day-after-tomorrow kind of officer with a master's degree in aeronautical engineering from Caltech and a twelve-year background in ballistic-missile science...
...more serious problem, however, than the number of courses is the entire concentration program itself. Ideally, students concentrating in music would be drawn from four main groups: those interested in composition, in musicology, in performing or conducting, and a last category including those with or without a musical background who are using concentration in music as a reflection and intensification of their over-all college education. In a liberal arts college, it would be natural for a large number of students to fall into this group. The fact that there are very few, especially when compared with departments such...
...teach courses in analysis properly, the Department quite legitimately feels it has a right to expect a solid background of technical knowledge and skill. This background is not to be found in high school music appreciation courses or in a the typical instrumental training of the amateur musician. Therefore, only those with extensive previous training, usually in a conservatory, are in a position to dispense with the elementary harmony course designed to supply the basic techniques of musical analysis. Since very few performers go to college even today, almost no student is exempt from Music 51, and it is through...
Music 51 is, of necessity, a very difficult and technical course which must supply not only the materials necessary for harmonic analysis, but also a solid technical background for the future composer. There is a large amount of mechanical exercises and memorization; "real" music is used for the most part in an illustrative capacity rather than as an object of study itself. A year of Music 51 is often more than enough to persuade a student against music as a field of concentration...
...Thousand Things are the fragments that make up life's substance, and to go on living, however maddeningly arranged the fragments may be. is itself a valid action. Spelled out against the rich, colorful background that Author Dermoût knows so well and handles so effectively, this is an affirmation that emerges with an oddly insistent, compelling effect...