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...City last spring. The story told of a Queens high school honor student, three weeks away from graduation, who dropped off his date after a prom and then, while walking home, was shot to death on a quiet street. A week later, one of his three young assailants - Angel Claudio, a 16-year-old tenth-grade dropout - found a lawyer in the Yellow Pages and surrendered to police, admitting that he had accidentally shot the victim with a .38-cal. pistol when the student resisted an attempt to take his ring. Within a few days, one of the accomplices retained...
...sequel to I, Claudius? Part 2 of Caligula? No, an opera: Claudio Monteverdi's The Coronation of Poppea, first performed in 1642 in Venice. History's first great opera, Poppea is infrequently performed not because of the plot, which set a high standard of treachery and lubricity, but because of the special demands of Baroque convention, which included the casting of castrati in principal roles. Further, the musical idiom of early 17th century opera sounds strange to audiences accustomed to the ripe lyricism of Bellini, Verdi and Puccini...
Social Studies started off as a small, elite major and now has more than 200 concentrators. Similarly, the Literature concentration, which the Faculty established this year, will debut next fall with only about 20 carefully selected students. Chaired by Claudio Guillen, professor of Comparative Literature and of Romance Languages and Literatures and one of the concentration's founders, the literature major will allow students to study both literature from historical and artistic perspectives and literary theory...
...Claudio Guillen, professor of Comparative Literature, and the sole member of the Faculty Council to voice public support for the gay students' efforts, says that some of the Faculty Council members feared, "If we give them this non-discrimination policy, does this not amount to almost a recommendation of homosexuality?" Unfortunately, Guillen was out of the country when the Faculty Council finally voted against the gay students' proposal. "I am very sorry it did not pass," Guillen says. "The students have my very serious sympathy. They are courageous, rational and right." Paul Perkovic '71, the alumni adviser to GSA, points...
...Claudio Guillen, professor of Comparative Literature and Romance Languages and Literatures, and chairman of the committee, cited the brief period of time prospective students were given to apply to the concentration as a reason only "some 20" applicants. The committee held its introductory meeting on Wednesday...