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The committees down through the years have usually been successful in appointing important artists and scholars, including T.S. Eliot '10, Edwin Muir, e.e. cummings '10, and Octavio Paz literature; Edwin Panovsky and Laurence Binyon in fine arts; R. Buckminster Fuller in architecture; and Aaron Copland and Igor Stravinsky in music...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mystique of the Norton Lectures | 4/7/1975 | See Source »

Levin said the Norton lectures are valuable because they get practitioners in the arts to set out their theories. Igor Stravinsky's lectures in 1939-40 on "The Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons" are strong examples; they're the only lectures to be given in a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mystique of the Norton Lectures | 4/7/1975 | See Source »

The increased role of government in the sale of arms has left little room for freelance private dealers. Their sales -mostly of spare parts and used arms-comprise less than 5% of the world weapons trade. The private dealers survive primarily because their unrivaled knowledge of specific markets enables them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: The New Zaharoffs | 3/3/1975 | See Source »

There is no evidence that these private dealers sell arms illegally; Kokin and Cummings, for instance, would run the risk of forfeiting their government licenses and thus losing out on their profitable legal arms trade. In fact, most of today's illegal "gunrunning" is done by governments-such as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: The New Zaharoffs | 3/3/1975 | See Source »

Original Poetry. In their junior year, Whittemore and Angleton edited a quarterly of original poetry, called Furioso, financed mostly by subscriptions raised by Whittemore's aunt. Contributors included Ezra Pound, E.E. Cummings, Archibald MacLeish and William Carlos Williams. Rates were $1 a page. "When we were short of money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONALITY: The Making of a Master Spy | 2/24/1975 | See Source »

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