Word: timbuktu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Doubleday this week. A fairly consistent concertgoer, Copland rarely listens to recordings because he finds it discouraging that a record always sounds the same. "It would never occur to me," says he, "to sit down and listen to a Beethoven symphony. Recordings are really for people who live in Timbuktu...
...their full disposal are Harvard's libraries and laboratories; they get free room and board, plus $3,500 a year (tax free) for bachelors, and up to $5,500 for married men. Extra money can be had for research equipment and travel; they can toddle off to Timbuktu if they feel the need of it. Harvard's main hope is that all may permanently enrich one another...