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...Well, “professor,” if you’d read the original Latin, you’d know...
Madonna--she of the blond ambition--is the American pop paradigm. She debuted with prefab, coquettish tunes such as Borderline and Like a Virgin, then experimented with her own songwriting, as well as Latin and dance-club influences, while never forgetting to deliver at least a smidge of sex (usually more) in her songs and videos. Of the new generation, Britney Spears is the most precocious student. On her most recent album, Britney, Spears messes around with hip-hop rhythm--the white girl's stock assertion of musical growth--and sings I'm Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman...
...singer Norah Jones on the Blue Note label [MUSIC, March 18], I assumed I'd be reading about jazz. But no, the story revealed the anemic jazz industry's crossover bid to dress up a pop singer as a jazz artist. Jazz still resonates with life in places like Latin America and Northern Europe, but in America it has become irrelevant and moribund. LEE M. COHEN Belmont Heights, Calif...
...generation. Sage “had acquired from Grandpa (bad blood!) vanity, ambition and discontent along with literacy.” Yet though Sage is vain and selfish, she is also clever, shy and a book-lover. Interestingly, she never learns how to tell time but can translate Latin effortlessly...
...example, I recently presented Summers with a letter on behalf of the Latino and Latin American Studies Initiative that was signed by over 100 student supporters from diverse organizations throughout the college, graduate and professional schools. The letter sought support for Latino and Latin American studies through concrete acts leading to a degree-granting program, additional courses, tenured faculty, increased student recruitment and research support. Whereas Summers shared a generic objection to having particular groups teach their own ethnic groups, he was then asked about his support for Afro-American Studies. “My feelings about African American Studies...