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Learning the grammar of Boulez' music is a first step to understanding his language. The grammar has a metaphysic: it will be rational. "One system is no better than another," Boulez says. "Our Occidental tradition is no better than the Oriental or Arabic. To me, every system is good if...
to a Caucasian woman who rose in indignation and plunked herself down next to an unwashed, unshaven, but indubitably Occidental bum. Yet there was little bitterness among the Japanese-Americans. "A word that I heard over and over again whenever there would be an incident or a slight was shikataganai...
Goal of Greatness. In 1960, Occidental men won two of the eleven Rhodes scholarships awarded in the West, plus ten Woodrow Wilson fellowships for prospective college teachers, the same number as giant U.C.L.A. Against stiffer competition this year, Oxy got four more Wilson fellowships and another Rhodes (U.S. total: 32...
By Western standards, Oxy is a venerable institution of learning. It was founded 75 years ago by Los Angeles' Presbyterian ministers, who gave it a lavish land-grant endowment, and grandly called it "Occidental University." After land values collapsed and enrollment plunged to twelve, Oxy became a "college." It...
Effective Effulgence. Occidental's boss is veteran (since 1946) President Arthur G. Coons. 62. an Oxy alumnus ('20) and a Penn-educated economist. A noted educational statesman, Coons was chairman of the committee that worked out California's new "Master Plan" for public higher education-a plan...