Word: sebastian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...AFTERNOON CONCERT. Mozart, Clemenza di Tito Overture; Schubert, Variations in A flat; Couperin, Lecons di tenebres; Milhaud, Chansons de Ronsard; Handel, Organ Concerto no. 3, opus 4; Brahms, Trio, opus post.; Debussy, Martyrdom of St. Sebastian; Telemann, Trio sonata in E; R. Strauss, Serenade in E flat for 13 winds; Haydn, Sonata no. 3 for piano...
...similar question is raised about the novel's hero, Physicist Sebastian Bloch, in whom readers will find it hard not to see at least some Oppenheimer traits: he has "a universal mind," an otherworldly face and a mesmeric personality. Bloch also belongs to a Communist apparatus, but carries no party card. Young Mark Ampler, a U.S. security agent who enrolls at Bloch's university to keep tab on the physicist promptly falls under his spell. Pearl Harbor packs Mark off to war and sets Sebastian fervently to work on the Bolt, or the Monster, as Author Chevalier interchangeably...
...Sellout. In the novel, Mark innocently relays a story that U.S. security agents have concocted with the deliberate purpose of trapping Physicist Bloch in a lapse of loyalty. But the question of why Sebastian indicts his friend with a damaging yarn of his own is only glancingly answered. Chevalier hints that merely working on the A-bomb has corrupted Sebastian's moral sense. Another suggestion is that he has "sold out" to a nebulous power elite and forgotten the "little people." This charge reduces itself to guilt by dissociation: Bloch's crime is not so much libeling...
...Real Life of Sebastian Knight, by Vladimir Nabokov. Early Nabokov (circa 1941) is better than Late Almost Anybody Else,.and in this novel his paradoxical mind plays trenchantly over the nature of reality, identity, and the artist's task...
...there are others. For instance, Johann Sebastian Bach, whom students can hear during much of the hour devoted to Music 10 (Music Building 2). The course is taught by Wallace Woodworth and titled, oddly enough, The Music of J.S. Bach. Over at 2 Divinity Avenue, Professors Reischauer and Fairbanks introduce the novitiate to Far Eastern History...