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After publishing several neoclassical tracts and receiving tenure in 1967, Marglin left again for India. While there, he fell in love with and later married a French woman raised in Morocco who sensitized him to the wealth of non-Western cultures. he explains. At the same time the student uprisings that brought Paris to a near-standstill in 1968 helped to dispel Marglin's belief in the immutability of the capitalist order. Marglin returned to Harvard no longer believing that the liberal position made sense...
Friday, October 13: Lecture--"Mayan Shamans: The Witch Doctors of Non-Western Culture?" by Barbara Tedlock, professor of Anthropology. Slides and refreshments. Lewis Hall Lounge...
Foreign Languages and Cultures, divided into Western Europe (including language) or a major non-Western culture...
Looking for some "alternative avenue," he won a Fulbright scholarship to Paris to study with Nadia Boulanger, one of the most famous of modern composition teachers. On a vacation in North Africa, he first heard Eastern music. Says Glass: "I saw the repetitive element of non-Western music as another way of organizing music." He worked with Ravi Shankar on a film score, traveled through India and returned to New York in 1967, determined to create a new Western music built not upon melody but structure...
...power. College enrollment increased from the widespread belief that the new technocratic and industrial society demanded, as never before, large numbers of highly trained and educated individuals. As Americans felt called upon to play an active role in world affairs, area studeis were started to provide new information about non-Western cultures (notably the USSR and China); a recognition of the importance of science and technology in the modern world led to the massive amounts of federal aid pumped into university research facilities. These were substantial achievements in the field, even if they were won at the cost of increasingly...