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...editorial. "Tutorial and the English Department." If our program were anything like that which he describes, we would also share his distaste for it. "The grand era of Harvard education," in which he thinks the Department still lives, must have been pretty grim indeed--a dark stronghold of nineteenth century philology, clanking with cumbersome internal machinery and populated with tutors who peeped surreptitiously at their students' latest rank-listing before deciding how many more scholarly secrets they might legally administer...
...attraction, and Sir Adrian Boult its conductor. And unfortunately, Sir Adrian is one of those who thinks that Miss Sutherland can only sing well when she is singing Puccini (a palpable falsehood). Consequently, Sir Adrian has ripped Handel's oratoria from its century, making it as operatic and as nineteenth-century as he can. The result is a sprawling, unkempt orchestra, bawling, dyspeptic singers, and crawling, inept tempos. (London A 4357--you'll recognize the album by the ugly crucifix on its cover...
...this one has come to expect from the G & S Players; they possess the singular ability of fashioning entertainment out of dull nineteenth-century spoofs. But because of the ridiculously large number of playlets that Gilbert and Sullivan wrote, they can only occasionally hit upon an operetta that has any humor of its own. Iolanthe, happily, is such an operetta: W.S. Gilbert, for once, lampooned a group he actually knew by sight--instead of pirates and Japanese--and the result, coupled with Sir Arthur's magnificent mock-hymns, was a grandly devastating jibe at the Victorian Establishment. Peers sweep around...
...chapters of the intellectuals, Hindus adapts Turgenev's classification of the nineteenth century intellectuals into fathers and sons, Today's fathers' are those who personally experienced the Revolution and their writings, perhaps because of the experimental nature of the Soviet state, were largely theoretical. Most writers have been brow-beaten into accepting the official Party line but from time to time a lone figure such as Pavlov or Pasternak rebels...
Among other proposals of a somewhat more nineteenth century label, Dr. Habsburg urged the West to give economic aid only to those countries accepting western ideology and to counter Russia's Berlin threats with a similar threat to close off the Soviet Union's access to the high seas...