Word: nortons
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...It’s a shame, isn’t it?" Professor John T. Hamilton, one of the members of the Norton committee, said of the turnout. "I anticipated it to be much more of an event...
Reverend Peter J. Gomes, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Minister in Memorial Church, finds the low attendance particularly disappointing in light of the broad intellectual aspirations inherent in the stature of the Norton Lectures. "This was supposed to be the great flagship of the humanities," he says...
Though it may seem ironic that Barenboim would speak out against musical specialization to such a specialized audience, the sentiment fits with the spirit of the Charles Eliot Norton Professorship of Poetry, which awards "prominent figures in poetry in the broadest sense...
During a question and answer session, Barenboim expressed a similar, gentle humility about the post of Norton professor of poetry...
...audience member asked Barenboim if he could tell a story about something funny that had happened during his career. He said, "Once, I was invited to give the Norton Lectures at Harvard...