Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like the reigning romantic heroes of mid-19th century musical Europe, Chopin and Liszt, New Orleans-born Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829-69) had sex appeal aplenty. As a Wunderkind pianist-composer in the Paris salons, as a lion on tour in the U.S., the West Indies and Latin America, he dazzled the ladies with his pink-lemonade piano pieces and thrilled them with his frail, aristocratic good looks and his saturnine, bedroomy eyelids. One panting female, so the story goes, even swooped down upon him at the end of a recital, picked him up in her arms and made...
...century later, Gottschalk is beginning to be appreciated for what he was-America's first important nationalistic composer. New LPs of his piano music by Amiram Rigai and his two-movement symphony, A Night in the Tropics, show how much he loved the Negro, Creole and Latin American melodies and rhythms. More important, they show that he handled those native folk ingredients with astonishing sophistication, charm and originality. Listening to his music is often like hearing Stephen Foster delivered with the elegance of Chopin and the romantic flair of Berlioz...
Following the awards formal addresses will be made by three newly graduated seniors, Steven B. Burbank, '68, L. Michael Henry '68, who will give his Oration in Latin, and Richard C. Trufara...
...controversial section, the committee cites widespread dissatisfaction with Cambridge's public high school system (mainly Cambridge High and Latin), and suggests that Faculty members--whether or not they live in Cambridge--be allowed to borrow money from the University to pay for their children's private high school education, as they now may do only for college. This amounts, in effect, to University subsidization of private schooling. The report does not rule out University help to improve Cambridge's schools--but it implies that Cambridge hasn't shown much interest in getting such...
Until then let's make light of it. Have you been keeping up with the Times? It's a riot. A couple of weeks ago column eight told of Parisian students occupying the Latin Quarter; column one had the word on the insurrection at Columbia; at the bottom of the page, on the left, was a story about 500 students in Brussels taking over the university; deep inside the first section there was news of students rioting at the London School of Economics; section two told of the continuing "problem" with young radicals in Germany; the next day Brooklyn College...