Word: classicall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The world's indoor high-jump record is officially held by a Boston University freshman named John Thomas, who last month propelled himself 7 ft. 1¾ in. into space. Unofficially, it is held by the members of the Bolshoi Ballet, who last week bounded about the stage of...
This spring Jaeger is teaching an undergraduate course on the philosophical development of Aristotle in Classics and Philosophy, in addition to a graduate seminar on Horace in the Classics Department. He is also director of the Institute for Classical Studies.
Pace Setters. With the quickening in the architectural air even the oldtimers, once content merely to refashion their own styles, have turned innovators again. Le Corbusier's small French chapel at Ronchamp shows that the man who first put the box on stilts now leads in the move toward...
One of the continual fascinations of contemporary music is the tension between originality and tradition arising from apparently conflicting ideals of being at once modern and timeless. While composers plead for the chance to break free from the constraints of the 18th and 19th Centuries, they tacitly concur with the...
Randall Thompson has chosen the last course, bringing a modern harmonic vocabulary to the forms and even the styles of the classical composers. His most distinctive characteristic--the parallel chordal progressions and the contrary motion of mirroring lines shows the same concern for pattern that characterizes baroque music. His counterpoint...