Word: quintets
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...parochial moorings--which might be race-linked for Black students, religious-linked for Jewish and Mormon students, language-linked and nationality-linked for Hispanic students, etc, etc. I did not say in my February 25 letter that as such parochial preferences were inferior to cosmopolitan ones, and if the quintet from the Black Students Association (Anthony Ball--Kenneth Johnson--Darryl Parsons--Brian Stevens--Timothy Wilkins) read attentively, they would not find in that letter what they claim I said, that I dismiss "as parochial the Church-of-Latter-Day-Saints and Hillel House...
...quintet uses this innuendo to protect their own parochial proposal for a Third World Cultural Center from my criticism, but this just won't protect it I'm afraid. It happens that it was in terms of the functions of parochial moorings that I characterized Harvard students who are linked to such moorings, through Newman Club, Hillel House, etc. And from this functional vantage point (not an inferior-superior vantage point as the quintet charges) I said that some students (maybe say 35 percent of Jewish students, 35 percent of Catholic students, 50 percent of Mormons, etc.) "trek Harvard...
...analytical confusion among those Black students with ethnocentric identities is further revealed in the naive arguements by the quintet (and also by Christopher Farley and James Kearney--March 4) that the wider Harvard community is obligated to fund and sustain a Third World Center. Though the quintet and Alan Shaw disagree with me--owing perhaps to their low leadership expectations of Black students--I still consider it a pathetic and disorienting contradiction for Black students with ethnocentric identities to ask others (whites) to generate resources to sustain their parochial preferences...
...February 25 comments, as the quintet suggests, that parochial moorings are off-limits to cosmopolitan Blacks or cosmopolitans among any other ethnic group. I said that Black students with ethnocentric identities have a dysfunctional approach to cultivating parochial moorings, a phony leadership approach that will not and cannot translate the cultivation of parochial moorings into viable benefits (whether emotional, economic, power, intellectual) for Black Americans. Cosmopolitan Blacks who want to cultivate genuine connections with some Black parochial moorings are, for the most part, just more sophisticated, mature and skillful in these matters than Blacks with ethnocentric identities, for they above...
Schubert: Piano Quintet in A Major, "Trout" (Emanuel Ax, piano, with members of the Guarneri Quartet and Julius Levine, double bass); Mozart: Eine kleine Nachtmusik (Guarneri Quartet with Julius Levine; RCA). Schubert's ineffable "Trout" Quintet, so named for its use of the composer's song The Trout as the basis of the fourth movement, is one of the glories of the chamber-music repertory, beloved of pianists and string players (and audiences) everywhere for its grace, wit and warmth. Ax's sensitive, full- toned pianism and the Guarneri's rich ensemble are perfectly matched here, to each other...