Word: brower
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gustav Mahler, Whose preoccupations so forcefully resonate through our own anxieties and reflections, that the music reviewer feels other than epiphenomenal. Only ten does the luckless effort of describing music with words seem somehow more than a vain habiliment of inevitable failure, more than the prose effulgence Reuben Brower meant when he said that "belief in nonsense depends only on suggestive repetition." Perhaps just a half dozen years ago most of us had never heard a note of Mahler's music; I remember my music teacher telling me at age fifteen that Mahler was "dark, tough to understand, an indisputable...
...teachers apparently caught it, and headed back to their campuses with a wholly new perspective. Says Mae Ethridge, from Fresno City College: "We knew about the injustice and poverty intellectually, but we had to feel it before it became meaningful." Bob Brower, who teaches at New York State University's Urban Center in Brooklyn, learned firsthand about ghetto justice by spending an afternoon in court with his youthful tutor. "That damn judge," he said, "was handing down decisions he made before he ever saw the facts. It was like processing hamburger meat, just put it in the grinder...
Master Rueben A. Brower '38 found a Volkswagon key on the banks of the Charles River yesterday. It will be in the CRIMSON Business offices awaiting claimants today...
Warner B. Berthoff '47 and David D. Perkins '51, professors of English, and Bate, Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of Humanities, plan to take sabbaticals. Reuben A. Brower, professor of English, and Walter J. Kaiser, associate professor of English and Comparative Literature, will be on leaves of absence...
...Brower will spend next year at Oxford on a Fulbright Fellowship. He will lecture on English and finish a book on Shakespeare. Kaiser plans to use his leave to finish a book on Spenser...