Word: medievales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Advanced placement and course reduction should not be reserved for geniuses who are held back by the course system or for budding scholars who have their life's work in medieval history already planned out; the program should be opened up to greater numbers of relatively undistinguished students who want...
A small double-chorus opened the all-sacred program with a performance of Palestrina's Stabat Master. This work, one of the many settings of a medieval Latin poem attributed to Jacopone da Todi, is an excellent example of Palestrina's lucid polyphony. If the chorus's presentation was marred...
The defeat by Mrs. Nearing left him wondering what to do with the remainder of his sudden fame. In any case, he intends to stay at Columbia. But he has been deluged with outside offers from radio, TV and Hollywood, now needs an agent to handle the requests. Van Doren...
The main spark of this intra-House rapport is Housemaster Charles H. Taylor, Henry Charles Lea Professor of Medieval History. Since his appointment as Master two years ago, he has improved tutor-student relationships, worked to enliven interest in House activities, and wrecked Hurricane Carol's plan of 1954 to...
All this is not so much written as pasted together. Economic theories, political maneuvers, even the Roosevelt biography-all are told through endless quotations barely held together by some bright phrases. Complex changes are told with the black and white naivete of a medieval morality play even when Schlesinger is...