Word: masters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...social make-up of Harvard, and on these the COH has no power whatsoever. It has no control over social policy-setting matters; it merely oversees specific problems that arise. And even for these small problems, the Committee usually bows to the will of the administration. Dudley House's Master Crooks agrees. In an interview last year he said, "We have never done anything important...
...through Wednesday there was no trouble. Then Thursday night I started my usual prediction-night ritual. To the Master's for tea. To the dining hall for another unmatchable Lowell House dinner. Back to the room for a half hour with Walter and Eric...
...tasteful musicality that spurns either maudlin moonbeams or brittle bravura. He puts it all to work in the Byronic B-Minor Third Sonata, playing with dash, sweep and refined lyricism. His performance of the Second, in B-flat minor, offers something more. Although not the performance of a mellow master like Rubinstein, it displays a subtle feeling for the shifting, subterranean currents of Chopin's emotion. There is an urgency in the scherzo, a brooding pathos in the famous funeral march, a bizarre mysteriousness in the final skittering octaves, which Anton Rubinstein described as the winds of night blowing...
...from Gallup's notes that in the much quoted line, "These fragments I have shored against my ruin," the words "shored against" originally read "spelt into." This was probably Eliot's own emendation, but other alterations are clearly the work of the man who looked over the master's shoulder. "Dogaral" (doggerel), noted Ezra on one passage, and Eliot humbly struck the offending words from his text. But Eliot sometimes balked. Ezra had condemned Eliot's description of a nightingale's "inviolable voice" as "too purty" (pretty), but Eliot seems to have thought that...
...about the passionately militant young Malraux, for instance. At 22, in 1923, this Malraux was arrested for trying to smuggle Khmer statuary out of Cambodia. Already an anticolonialist, he helped form those revolutionary forces that would eventually drive his countrymen out of Indo-China and make Mao Tse-tung master of China. The Malraux of the middle period had much to recommend him too. As an almost mythical liberal of the 1930s and a famous novelist (Man's Fate, Man's Hope), he helped organize and then commanded the brave, ramshackle Republican air force that flew against Franco...