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...existing departments. James Q. Wilson, professor of Government, who was to present the CEP recommendation to the Faculty, suggested that the plan would be as effective as the SFAC plan in abolishing credit. After all, he asked, "What department would approve the courses?" But the comment reportedly made by Col. Robert H. Pell, professor of Military Science and director of Army ROTC, that the CEP resolution "couldn't have pleased me more" made ROTC opponents uneasy about Wilson's claim...

Author: By Robin Freedberg, | Title: ROTC Makes A Stormy Exit | 4/15/1974 | See Source »

Rebel officers including Lt. Col. Joao Almeida Bruno, a close friend of ousted general Antonio de Spinola and former chief of staff Francisco Costa da Gomes, said they revolted in support of Spinola...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Portugal Seizes 30 Insurgent Officers | 3/18/1974 | See Source »

...poems show that morbidity had always been her native element. In the Ariel poems, published posthumously, madness is her theme, her scream and her doom. Ominous presences lurk in the shadows of her lines. Objects, col ors, odors, nature itself claw at the raw, chafed nerves of her being. In these last works she was half in love with death and courted it to attain the only peace that her tormented spirit could apparently know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Toppled King/Torn Mind | 1/28/1974 | See Source »

What kind of keyboard interpreter was Rachmaninoff? Like composer, like pianist. He was an unabashed romantic with unsurpassed gifts for pianistic col or, rhythmic thrust and pure trickery. But his most distinguishing trait at the keyboard was probably the pesky individual life of each of his fingers. When he wrote for himself, as in his four Piano Concertos and Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini (Volume 5 in the new release), he filled his pages with thickets of notes. So clustered are they that one suspects that he begrudged even a moment's pause or silence, at least when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sergei the Somber | 1/14/1974 | See Source »

...still works in ceramics, an art he practically revolutionized in a col laboration with Pepito Artigas that began in 1944. They decided that ce ramics should be monumental and pro duced major works like the double free standing walls at UNESCO headquarters in Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: New Wonders Out of an Old Craft | 11/26/1973 | See Source »

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