Word: catalogs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mozart's Due in B-flat is numbered 424 in the Kocchel catalog, but it sounds much carlier. Mozartean good spirits are here in abundance, but the work lacks a melodic and rhythmic inventiveness. Mr. Fuchs and his less famous but thoroughly accomplished sister reached the heart of the music from the very start. They played with precision, but not of the machine-gun variety. Every phrase received individual treatment, according to what preceded and proceeded it, as well as to its own unique factors. In addition to being consistent with the music, the two interpretations were consistent with each...
...discussion of the brass tacks of criticism will take place in Emerson F. A visiting professor from the University of Michigan, Charles Stevenson, will do the talking in this course, listed in the catalog as Philosophy 163 and labelled "Aesthetics...
Cosmography, which Webster blithely defines as "a description of the world or the Universe," will be discussed by astronomer Harlow Shapley in Nat. Sci. 115. From the catalog the course sounds as though it is intended only for those who can manipulate Einstein's formulas with aplomb, but Professor Shapley claims "the only prerequisite is a persistent curiosity." It all happens in Room 18 of the geographical Institute...
Clear Commitment. The latter was one of the most momentous communications ever penned by a U.S. President. It was a velvet-gloved rejection of Rhee's threat to keep fighting. It was also a catalog of benefits which would accrue to Rhee if he agreed to armistice. But over all, it was a clear U.S. commitment, Congress willing, to stand by humanitarian and political principles in Korea...
...effective final examination must lead to answers which weld the student's intellectual ability to the course material. Courses in the social sciences and humanities are especially geared to this kind of exam. Although the intermediate language courses are less profound than their course catalog cousins, they, too, are susceptible to the thought-fact type examination in which the emphasis is on material gleaned from the course...