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...course catalogue lists History 144b, "England in the Twentieth Century," as "an investigation of political, social, and intellectual change from the Edwardian era to the Welfare State...
Humanities 10 will be patterned after the Winthrop House course of the same name. It will cover topics including music and art history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and such modern thinkers as Nietzsche, Tomas Mann, Rilke, Freud, and Yeats...
Died. Irving Gitlin, 49, producer of some of TV's best documentaries; of leukemia; in Manhattan. A onetime CBS newsman (Twentieth Century), Gitlin switched to NBC in 1960 and filmed his White Paper series on such prickly subjects as U.S. welfare policy, civil rights, and 1964's Cuba, an analysis of the Bay of Pigs invasion that won an Emmy...
...been played at previous concerts, and performances were generally brighter and more confident. The Wind Ensemble reappeared with Robert Kurka's Suite from The Good Soldier Schweik. This basically tonal work, composed in 1956, treads perilously close to eclecticism as it attempts to combine all the classic styles of twentieth century music: the playful dissonance of Prokofieff, the biting sarcasm of Mahler, a Milhaud-like use of jazz, and insistent rhythms at once reminiscent of Igor Stravinsky and Leonard Bernstein. Combined with the nearly contemporary Town Piper Music of Richard Mohaupt (for the full Band) the work gave the second...
Heckscher is a scholar and a historian. He came to the Lindsay Administration in March 1967 from the Twentieth Century Fund, a small research foundation, where for fifteen years he pursued a quiet, academic life as the Fund's director--and served from 1961-1963 as President Kennedy's Special Consultant on the Arts...