Word: bard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like Pindar to some lesser bard. Let me some sound advice award To Beckett: Stick thou to thy last, Reverence the masters of the past. And listen! O thou wayward Muse Who first let Beckett on the loose: Small habits, when pursued betimes, Soon reach the dignity of crimes. Michael Ryan...
Rosen suggests that it is too late to do anything about the problem unless performers are allowed to bring back the scores and the great art of improvising. Ideally, they should have the abandon of the jazz saxophonist or the Serbian bard hatching his epic. Another solution, it might be added, would be luring composers from their suburban comfort to play their own music. Until then, he notes, one thing that can alleviate stage fright is "the absolute certainty of a botched performance." In coming upon a piano with a sticky pedal or a defective hammer action, says Rosen...
Pioneer. Similarly individualized courses of study are offered to the 3,000 students-aged 17 to 76-enrolled in the University Without Walls, which has programs ranging in size from two dozen students at Bard College in New York to 130 at Antioch's campus in San Francisco. Although the schools set their own admission standards and tuition (from as low as $300 to as high as $3,000 a year), they all have the same major degree requirement: each student must present to a student-faculty review committee evidence of his expertise, which may be as conventional...
Plaintiff v. Bard...
...current book, Fiedler is the plaintiff in a case against Shakespeare. The Bard, it seems, was viciously prejudiced on the subject of women, Jews and blacks. As internal aliens to his mind-"strangers"-they aroused his fear and consequently his hate. But after making Shakespeare out to be a conscious bigot, Fiedler argues that Shakespeare, quite unconsciously, had delved into "stereotypes and myths, impulses and attitudes" that "still persist in the dark corners of our hearts, the dim periphery of our dreams." So Shakespeare is both guilty and not guilty, a peculiar ambivalence that unsettles the whole book...