Word: woodworth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wallace Woodworth '24, James Edward Ditson Professor of Music, will serve as Acting Master of Adams House next year while Master Reuben A. Brower is away on sabbatical...
Master Brower made the announcement last night at the Adams House Christmas party. Woodworth, a Fellow of Adams House, will not be a newcomer to the location. He came to Adams under the House's second master, David Little, in the early 1930's and admits to being "almost the oldest member of the House around." He plans to continue regular teaching duties as lecturer in his immensely popular history of music course, Music...
These ideas are not quite as controversial as the dust jacket suggests, but Woodworth should have included more detail about them, and omitted some of the trivia that fills up the rest of the book. Some trivia: a chapter cataloguing the well known abuses of music by restaurants, advertisers and radio stations, another offering unimportant comments about music in churches, and a third summarizing the trends of modern music and urging his readers to be curious about them...
...next-to-last chapter comments well on the role of a music critic ("a reporter, a teacher, a philosopher, and a champion of music in his community") but the illustrations Woodworth has chosen are such atrocious specimens of writing and reporting they nearly invalidate his points...
...word about professorial metaphors: the reader does not expect flowing and melodious prose in a book of this kind, but he could request Woodworth not to write sentences like "Local companies need not espouse either horn of the dilemma..." And in making a very simple point on page 96, Woodworth uses an extended metaphor which includes cores, roots, flowers, fruit, tangents, shooting stars, and satellites...