Word: levins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with the exception of Morize. German is good but has lost many brilliant men. To a very definite extent the department is becoming limited to its main fields, but this should not discourage would-be concentrators from exploring opportunities in the less emphasized branches. Further supplementary courses such as Levin's course on the novel and Taylor's on the Medieval mind should be worked into the plan of study where possible. For these courses see the other articles on English and History
Literature and Democracy will be given by Theodore Spencer, associate professor of English, Harry T. Levin '33, faculty instructor in English. Francis O. Matthiessen, associate professor of History and Literature, and Perry G. E. Miller, associate professor of History and Literature...
Critical articles in the magazine are by Associate Professor Theodore Spenser, Hi Simons, John Finch, Morton D. Zabel, Howard Baker, and Delmore Schwartz. There are also statements about the poet by Harry Levin, instructor in English, and by Associate Professor Matthiessen. A complete review of the magazine appears on the editorial page...
...Music, the young, hard-working Philadelphia Opera Company hit the stride of its third season with a performance in English of the best-known Czech opera: Bedŕich Smetana's The Bartered Bride. Managed by tall, lean C. David Hocker, musically directed by short, swart Sylvan Levin, the Philadelphia troupe has 22 singers, average age about 27, all but one homegrown. The simple fooleries of The Bartered Bride, set to simple, polka-dotted tunes, showed off some notable young talent: Basso Luke Matz (music supervisor in the Unionville, Pa. public school), as a jovial village marriage broker; Soprano...
Enemies of opera in English often argue that most translations are bad. For his Bartered Bride Director Levin took a standard translation, freely paraphrased it, so that the marriage broker sang, "I know a honey with lots of money" instead of the conventional translationese, "One I know who has money galore...