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Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday at 9:--In contrast to, if not in rebellion against, the "sophisticated poetic tradition," English 195 is entitled "Folksong and Balladry." Blues and spirituals, badmen songs and sea chanteys--Assistant Professor Albert B. Friedman shows in Sever 14 the influence that all such popular expressions have had on formal poetry. This is the first year that the course has been open to undergraduates and the last that it will be available...
Russophile or Russophobe, if you are interested in drama you should consider Slavic 147. Associate Professor Wiktor Weintraub is giving "Modern Slavic Drama," from 1800 on, for the first time and will deal with selected plays translated from both Russian and Polish. Chekhov will be the main attraction, Sever 21 will be the stage...
...assorted other poets, philosophers, novelists, and playwrights prove that the West has no monopoly on literary genius in Humanities 112, "Classics of the Far East." Associate Professor James R. Hightower lifts the Bamboo Curtain for a look at 2,500 years of Chinese and Japanese great books, in Sever...
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 11:--David Owen opens innumerable Victorian closets in History 142b and finds an astonishing number of skeletons, to the accompaniment of laughter from an appreciative audience, in Sever 11. Disraeli, Gladstone, Churchill, and the rest pass in review in a fascinating study of the English and why they act the way they...
...reduce the authority of South Africa's highest courts, which for three years have thwarted old Daniel Malan's attempt to disenfranchise 50.000 Cape Colored (mixed blood) voters. He was less extreme than his enemies had feared (he did not yet demand, for example, that South Africa sever ties with Britain), a fact which gave his program almost the appearance of moderation. But moderation, Strydom style, includes recommending legislation which would...