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...spring of 1979, when a certain Kirkland House independent study seminar debuted. Called "Fundamentals of the Multiflex," and taught by Larry Brown '79, then a senior and still Harvard's all-time passing leader, the course became something of a symbol of the less-than-substantial intellectual rigor associated with independent work courses. (The rules were tightened shortly after the course was reported in the national press, but Dean Rosovsky still manages to throw a mispronounced dig at the course in his annual speech to freshman.) And for all the negative publicity the course received, that there even...
...life to his rival's method of composition. Yet today, nearly 30 years after Schoenberg's death, the question of what ordinary concertgoers will think of him remains unsettled. The music, like the man, is complex, uncompromising, obstinately single-minded in its innovative rigor. Audiences have felt, as many critics have, that Schoenberg put truth before beauty. They have often found him easier to take at second or third hand, as refracted through the more immediately appealing work of Student Alban Berg, for instance, or any of dozens of lesser figures...
...demanding than Caroline: "She could forgive a good deal of grossness so long as there was not emotional dishonesty, but he required aesthetic purity and was harsh about lapses in taste. He said that if something was shoddily executed it had unquestionably been shoddily conceived and insufficiently felt. This rigor in him, especially when directed at a well-meaning movie, gave her a sinking, hopeless feeling. Yet she knew that it was so in her own work: everything true and useful proceeded from a clear statement of the premises...
...sculpture entitled Dawn 's Wedding-the negative reversal of Moon Garden, every shape blanched and fully visible under the chalky candor of the white paint so that it seems ethereal and removed rather than dense and beckoning-afford an extremely satisfying sculptural experience. They are full of mystery, rigor and the calmly detailed expressive power that her own. - Robert Hughes
...According to Warren D. Goldfarb '69, head tutor of the concentration, the almost complete abscence of courses in modern continental and Eastern philosophy reflects the conscious decision of the department to sacrifice breadth in the coverage of diverse philosophies. Instead the department attempts to focus with more intensity and rigor on the central issues that preoccupy philosophers today: the modern analytic branches of metaphysics, epistemology and ethics...