Word: essays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strangest operas ever put on vinyl is Atonalist Arnold Schoenberg's Moses und Aron (Columbia, 3 LPs), which is partly a music drama based on Exodus, partly a musical essay on the nature of God. The opera's fascinating conflict develops between Moses, whose heart knows the Word his tongue cannot utter, and his brother Aron, who speaks glibly but substitutes for Moses' harsh and humble vision of God the opiate of a comforting father figure. To Aron, God is joy, to Moses He is awe. Moses' anguished faith can admit only...
Wyman follows with an essay on the West Coast anti-academics (the Beat and breathless generation)--a hand-dangling series of observations on San Francisco press agentry. Wyman, and a good many of Audience's poets, seem mildly awed at the energy of the Beat mystique--and profoundly amused by jazz-and-poetry miscegenation and technological bogeymen...
After heated and prolonged debate, Council members voted to recommend letter grading in all tutorial. The grade would be based on the tutor's evaluation of the student's work, and on a final essay graded by someone other than the tutor. The CEP has recommended grading and qualifying examinations at the end of the sophomore and junior years...
...Honors program until he flunks out of it. To effect this, the Committee proposes a "suitable test" at the end of the sophomore year, to be taken by all sophomores and to be based substantially on the work accomplished in sophomore tutorial. The test might be a conventional essay, or a "slight essay," a paper written in a halfday on a small group of topics...
...sophomores will have tutorial instruction--"in groups of not more than four or five"--while junior and senior Honors candidates will be given individual tutorial "as seems appropriate" for an hour a week. Juniors would also be required to write "at least one substantial essay." Seniors will write a thesis--"one of the most successful elements in our present educational practice." All junior and senior Honors candidates will take Tutorial for Credit as a fourth course...