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...Nineteenth Century sculpture was more lifelike than lively, consisting mostly of well-proportioned heroes and heroines correctly modeled in conventional poses. Young Rodin easily licked his contemporaries at that game. His male nude Age of Bronze caused a scandal at the "Paris Salon of 1877" because the judges mistakenly supposed it must have been cast from life. No one could make the same mistake about his later, greater bronzes. Dented everywhere by Rodin's thick thumbs, they were expressions of life, rather than copies. His marbles, when made by professional stone carvers from Rodin's clay models, were...
Winkler will teach Government 203, "Nineteenth Century Political Thought," in place of Louis Hartz '40, associate professor of Government, who will devote most of his time to research. Winkler will also teach Government 208, "The Scope and Methods of Political Sciences...
This spring Hartz will not give his scheduled course, Government 203, Nineteenth Century Political Thought. The course may still be offered, however, and taught by another...
...show starts simply enough as a bedtime story about a nineteenth century chimney-sweep. Then the children and storytellers decide to make an opera out of the tale. As the opera is written, the author gives the audience a part, singing four songs: a prologue, epilogue and two entre-acts. The first set of "Let's Make an Opera" is devoted to the problems of amateurs writing an opera, rehearsing the opera with all sorts of trouble from noisy children, and finally rehearsing the audience. The second act is the opera itself...
...Guide claims to present an accurate picture of student opinion. This claim is not alone explicit; it is implicit in the phrasing of its reports, which cannot fail to remind us of the measured and solemn, yet assured, judgements of the great nineteenth century German historians: "Professor X was thought by '53, on the whole, to be an insensible dullard. Some, however, found him a towering intellect and an insipiring teachers, etc. etc." But what does "on the whole" mean? And is "some" ten, twenty, thirty or forty precent? We are never given any forthright statement of proportions...