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Berman's thesis, The Evolution of Tonal Thinking in the Works of Claude Debussy, was completed in 1965, and he was awarded his Ph.D. that June. He feels that "Debussy was the final rupture from classical tonal thinking, although this break was prefigured and prepared by nineteenth century practice as...
What makes the "newest" Archaeopteryx fossil especially significant is that it may help resolve an old scientific argument about the evolution of birds. According to the more popular theory, birds are descended from small tree-dwelling reptiles that developed crude "wings," like those of the modern flying squirrel. They used...
SerVaas, now president of Curtis, points out that the Post still gets so much mail that three employees are needed to take care of it; he believes that it "never really died in the minds of the public." The new-old Post, he says, "will be a patriotic magazine, as...
To explain the evolution of an ideal form to accommodate the medium of camerawork, White traces the development of the nude as the ideal form in art. He draws on classic forms from Clark's Nude: Study: the Greek model of Perfect Man as god, beautiful body and well-trained...
Such a step, he said, besides being "counter to the intellectual and social evolution of Harvard College," might discourage gifts to the similarly pressed Harvard College Fund. "Some donors have criticized Harvard for what they feel to be either excessively lenient or harsh responses to contemporary issues; few donors are...