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Making Waves: Even when he's out of town, ubiquitous Du Bois Professor of the Humaities HENRY LOUIS GATES JR. can't stay out of the headlines. Gates drew fire from local Nation of Islam leaders for a New York Times op-ed piece, in which he discussed anti-Semitism among Black leaders...
Making Waves: Even when he's out of town, ubiquitous Du Bois Professor of the Humaities HENRY LOUIS GATES JR. can't stay out of the headlines. Gates drew fire from local Nation of Islam leaders for a New York Times op-ed piece, in which he discussed anti-Semitism among Black leaders...
...Du Bois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates Jr. yesterday lambasted a local Black leader who criticized him on Boston radio...
...wind and percussion (1964), may be the most explicit example of his penchant for the ineffable, but the composer's acute sensitivity to the human condition is found in more intimate pieces as well. Chief among these, and his most famous work, is the Quatuor pour la Fin du Temps (1941), for piano, clarinet, violin and cello, a moving confessional made all the more poignant by its having been written in a concentration camp. Forty years later, nearing the end of his life, Messiaen completed the masterpiece toward which his entire compositional life had been aiming: the opera St. Francois...
...market for environmentally friendly products is worth an estimated $200 billion a year, and has just begun to take off. Every potential innovation, whether a new kind of windmill or biodegradable plastic made from plants, is attracting attention from companies in a host of industrial nations. The U.S.'s Du Pont is in a race with Germany's Hoechst and Britain's ICI, among others, to develop replacement chemicals for ozone-destroying chlorofluorocarbons (cfcs). Germany's Siemens is vying with such firms as Amoco in the U.S. and Sanyo in Japan to produce cheap, efficient solar electric cells...