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Samuel P. Huntington, Thomson Professor of Government, said yesterday Carter "made the points that had to be made," and added the speech "will not have an impact on the basic SALT II lineup in the Senate...
Paul Bowles is a Renaissance man born into an age that applauds specialization. Doing several things very well indeed has, paradoxically, brought him less public acclaim than he might have received had he stuck to one. Bowles, 68, has been a distinguished composer; in 1947 Musician Virgil Thomson called him "America's most original and skillful composer of chamber music." He has written music for the stage, particularly for the plays of his friend Tennessee Williams. He has also been a tireless collector of folklore and legends, especially from Morocco, where he has lived on and off since...
...other major oratorio, structurally less cohesive and dramatically less powerful than The Creation, but a work in which the aging composer set out to demonstrate all that he could do in a wide range of styles and forms. In other words, a compendium of glories. The text, from James Thomson's panoramic poem written in 1730, inspires passages of musical landscape painting, evocations of the hunt, human scenes of yeomen plowing, spinning, drinking. Dorati is a knowing and devoted Haydn conductor, as he showed in his heroic compilation of all 104 symphonies with the Philharmonia Hungarica. The performance...
...decision of director of Expository Writing Richard Marius to cancel the program's fiction section sparked angry debate from both students and staff. Marius said he cancelled the section because he is "not convinced that students in fiction know how to write an expository essay." But Diana Thomson, a fiction teacher, said Marius cancelled the program because of personal and philosophical conflict between...
...faculty also blame the limited student influence on decision-making on a decline in students' political interests, and on the unavoidable realities of running a university such as Harvard. "It seemed to happen overnight. I woke up one morning and there were fewer political organizations," Walzer says. And, as Thomson ruefully summarizes the lasting gains and eroding gains of the strike: "If it hadn't happened there wouldn't have been as much student input as you get these days. But the problem was that students were transients, and ultimately the power lies with those who are here forever...