Word: groups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...group's lawyers, Edmund E. Fleming and Brian Michael Olmstead, also took the case to Washington yesterday. They presented their arguments for a temporary restraining order to Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan Jr., but Brennan denied their request...
...Stade said he doubted whether the Committee would act on the group's request, since Faculty approval of the Fainsod Report would replace the Committee on the Houses with the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life, which would include students...
...making the Council representative-Fainsod and several others said that the Dean would be best able to choose a group representative of political, educational, and departmental interests. Bruce Chalmers, Master of Winthrop House, said that "the Dean sees the Faculty from another point of view; he can take different considerations into account." Chalmers added that the current CEP-whose members are appointed-is "far from a monolith...
Anton Bruckner's Overture in G minor proved to be a beautiful small piece. Bruckner belongs to that unhappy group of composers including Liszt. Schmidt, Reger, Vaughan Williams, and even Schoenberg, whose music is fashionably vilified without benefit of humane audition. The tedious and lamentable caricature of Bruckner most often encountered is of an amateurish, even childishly naive, rural organist who afflicted the world with eleven appallingly identical symphonies which are massive, repetitious, incoherent and only convulsively appealing. If he is given any credit at all, which rarely happens since people prefer summary condemnation to critical acceptance of monumental genius...
...deliberateness, comprehensiveness, mystical assurance, and formal clarity of the Mass. His symphonies are celebratory but never indulge in an easy rapture of tonal staleness or facile dramaturgy. Mahler learned much from Bruckner, primarily thematic linking of unprecedented subtlety among movements, the proliferation of material in the second thematic group, the immediate juxtaposition of radically differing elements (here Mahler extended Bruckner's simpler process of motto-lyrical oppositions to ironic commentary on all materials), and the greatest lesson of an enormously expanded sonata time-scale. But Mahler could never equal the cerulean and luminous chorale apotheoses of this Edward Gibbon...