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...serious student musical groups at Harvard exist mainly for their members and only secondarily for their audience. The purpose of these groups--orchestras, choirs, chamber ensembles, and the like--is to give their players and singers a first-hand look at fine music, to help them develop musical ability and enjoyment, and to give performances in which both the audience and the players can learn and take pleasure...
...confused by the depression, to the complexities of Marx and Lenin. But unlike popularizers of academic subjects, Baldwin is discussing men and not their books. While Wilson was essentially a scholar, Baldwin is essentially a novelist. His problem is to bring to an uninitiated audience a complicated form of first-hand experience; to present his novelist's perceptions in a medium where they will have immediate political consequence (without oversimplifying his observations, or turning his art into propaganda...
...damaging his own writings. Edmund Wilson, in the 30's, was affected by the tension between himself and his society to the point of suffering a nervous breakdown, as Baldwin had also done in the 1950's. But Wilson, while attempting to clarify things for himself, produced some excellent first-hand journalism as well as some first rate academic work on political and literary subjects. Re-reading these works now we sense a mind that was continuing to advance, a point of view that matured from year to year taking along whatever readers could follow it. Baldwin, on the other...
Through 20 years as an educational missionary in Africa, I have never known one instance of missionary idol-smashing. Instead I can attest first-hand a long record of missionary scholars who have reduced African languages to writing, collected and preserved African fables, proverbs, songs, art objects and missionary teachers who encourage young Africans to perpetuate their ancient arts...
...meeting of NSM Sunday, students who had participated in the registration campaign called the experience "extraordinarily valuable" in learning first-hand some of the problems of urban slum areas, Miss Miller said. Many students also voiced surprise that the people they contacted were so appreciative of being approached personally to register...