Word: mayman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...standing commitee consisting of Myra A. Mayman, the office's director, and five professors from the Music, English, VES and Art departments gave the annual awards to original projects it judged most innovative and likely to generate interest in the arts, Mayman said yesterday...
...Mayman declined to give the names or projects of the recipients, who will be notified next week...
...people have yet to be convinced. As Myra Mayman, director of the Office of the Arts, explains, there is a strong bias against performers as academics. "The typical comment of the critic is. 'Talk to an artist? Why? They don't know what they're doing. Mayman says...
...late as the 1920s that "Discernment and the cultivation of taste, plus the scholarship of art, became the subject of proper study for gentlemen and women," writes Mayman in a recent issue of The Radcliffe Quarterly. "Making paintings was another matter...
Before the 1920s, according to Mayman, even the study of art was considered an effeminate and unworthy undertaking. Harvard's first professor of Music--and the first in the country--was John Knowles Paine, tenured in 1875. Art historian Charles Eliot Norton was tenured in 1874. Playwright George Pierce Baker, Class of 1887, taught as a Professor of English and later of Dramatic Literature from 1905 to 1924. Both were firsts in their field at Harvard...