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...common complaint against chamber music, on the other side of the volume scale from nineteenth century masses, is that it is difficult to understand to the uninitiated. At Dunster House this week is an excellent chance to hear attractive, lighter works by Mozart and Poulenc. The players are some of the very best around Cambridge, among them Kathy Flanders (flute), John Eisenhart (horn), and Jay Gottlief (piano...
...volume is a re-issue of Benjamin Butterworth's 1892 collection of drawings of early tools right up to the then-latest advances in American technology. The self-satisfied texture of this beautiful book speaks more eloquently than any written passage could for the peculiar sensibilities of the late nineteenth century businessman...
PART OF THE PROBLEM is that the issue begins from a fashionable kind of desperate feminism, of which Virginia Woolf can be seen as a symbol. "Sensibility" itself is a legacy of a thoroughly nineteenth-century, over-sensitized, sitting-room mentality to which Woolf was the direct heir. And like Virginia Woolf, this set of attitudes finds itself caught uneasily between hating and depending...
...Wang and a number of earlier works from Wang's own collection. Meanwhile, the Busch-Reisinger plans to inaugerate a show of drawings by the Danish artist Jan Groth today; the next major show there will be works of Ferdinand Hodler, a now "re-appreciated" German painter of the nineteenth century. That show moves here from New York at the beginning...
Harvard presidents are drawn like lemmings to the sea by the prospect of initiating sweeping reforms in American higher education. In every generation over the last century a Harvard president has come up with some radical innovation. Late in the nineteenth century Eliot started the elective system; early in the twentieth Lowell began concentrations. Late in his career, Lowell also instituted the House system, and right after the Second World War Conant's General Education Committee wrote the Red Book, and Harvard has lived with its distribution and Gen Ed requirements ever since. Although by no stretch of the imagination...