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Dates: during 1960-1969
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GYORGY LIGETH LUX AETERNA (Deutsche Grammophon). Moviegoers may be familiar with Ligeti's score from its use in 2001: A Space Odyssey, where it accompanies the discovery of the monolith on the moon. The music is not conceived stereophonically but, like a clever piece of audible op art, achieves that effect from its dense-textured 16-part counterpoint, which seems to shimmer around its source in concentric waves. As an exercise in the deceptive qualities of pure sound, it is an awesome tour de force...
...protest the use of the term Wasp as the equivalent of "Americans of the old stock." There is a comparatively small but very proud and loyal group of people in the U.S. whose ancestors were both Catholics and Americans long before the influx of ethnic groups. They include Marylanders, Frenchmen in St. Louis and New Orleans, Castilian Spaniards in the Southwest and certain families in Philadelphia and other coast cities. Mr. Sargent Shriver is the most prominent man of this group at the present time. To refer to him as a "Waspirant" is as insulting as it would have been...
...graduate student in Applied Mathematics claimed that the IBM machines were only useful for cataloguing and problem solving. Students doing more complex research work use the PDP 1, a computer not owned by the Center he said...
...Mathematical Statistics, recommended that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences provide the Computing Center with more funds and equipment. Bossert said that these recommendations have been poorly implemented. "The Computing Center is doing a fine job ... the Faculty of Arts and Sciences isn't making interesting efforts in instructional use of computers," he said. He added that "the money we spend for students is less than many other schools of our level...
...Light--has long been a sore spot for both blacks and whites here. In combination with "discriminatory hiring and real estate policies," the report says that these investment practices make black students feel that "Harvard is uninterested in the 'morality' of its operations." The report's recommendation that Harvard use its fiscal might "to create an environment in which racial justice prevails at all levels" and to "stimulate black economic development" will probably find as much backing from whites as from blacks...