Word: slavic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cream in Stone. Throughout his 14-year (1940-54) "professional honeymoon" as New York Herald Tribune music critic, Thomson campaigned for the performance of modern works and unfamiliar ancient ones, carped at the heavy concert ration of German, Italian and Slavic music, and set about with gusto to deflate what he thought were undeserved reputations. Toscanini he criticized as a practitioner of the "Wow Technique," by which he meant "the theatrical technique of whipping up something in a way to provoke applause automatically." Strauss's Salome, he wrote, was "like modernistic sculpture made of cheap wood, glass, rocks, cinders...
Very few of the many records of folk music in foreign languages can be appreciated by the monolingual. MONITOR releases a great many recordings from the Slavic nations, most of which sound like the State Radio Orchestra and Chorus of Byelorussia backed up by the entire population of Byelorussia. The songs are uniformly translated to fit into the following matrix: "My love is in the tavern drinking (national beverage)/The flocks are on the hillside eating (national fodder)/Come away with me, my love for your eyes are like (national cliche)/Come and we will (international cliche...
...epic force" with which he plumbed "the depths of the tortured South Slavic soul," Yugoslavia's Ivo Andric, 69, won the Nobel Prize for literature. The second author-diplomat tapped in two years (1960 recipient: French Poet St. John Perse) and the first of his countrymen ever honored by the Swedish Academy, the unassuming, owlish-looking Serb was Yugoslav minister to Berlin when the Nazis invaded his country in 1941. Abandoning public life, he settled down to write a sweeping Bosnian trilogy, completed The Bridge on the Drina, a history-haunted hymn to his native land, while...
There remains one more pre-lunch course that may a tract: the Slavic department's the Slavic department's only course for the English-speakers: Professor Vsevolod Setschkareff's massive "History of Russian Literature from the Beginnings to the Present...
William I. Bennett, of Adams House Tacoma, Wash., Slavic Languages Literature; James J. Fox, of Ad- House and Milwaukee, Wis., An-; Joel A. Huberman, of House and Maplewood, N.J., ; Saul A. Kripke, of Ad- House and Omaha, Neb., Mathe-; Ted W. Margadant, of Dunster and Los Angeles, Cal., History; H. Tribe, of Leverett House San Francisco, Cal., Mathematics; C. Waterhouse, of Eliot House Denver, Col., Mathematics; and las P. White, of Eliot House and ridge, Classics...