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Master Brower and Mrs. Brower plan to leave the U.S. in mid-summer next year and hope to spend most of their time in London, Italy, and Greece. Brower will be preparing a book on William Shakespeare and the Graeco-Roman heroic tradition, to be published by the Oxford University Press...
Brower has been Master of Adams since July of 1954. At present, he is teaching a course on Shakespeare and the Heroic Tradition (English 223) which deals mainly with Shakespeare's Roman plays and in which Brower says he has worked out various ideas for the book. He is also teaching Humanities 6 and in the Spring will offer English 162, readings in English literature since...
...cheers. For in today's sculpture, both traditional subject matter and traditional techniques have gone by the board. Where once marble and bronze held sway, sculpture is now made of plastics, automobile fenders, even fur, carpeting and burlap. In place of the commemorative bust, the symbolic nude or heroic grouping, there are now polyester broads, overstuffed light switches, 3-D inside-out doughnuts, stuffed-leather totems, and well-welded remnants of the new Iron Age. The definition of sculpture has broadened until it has become an Everyman art, and the results exist more as a fascinating collection of objects...
...opening of Covent Garden's new production of II Trovatore. She passed with flying colors, though she was scored for occasionally giving too free a rein to her voice when spiraling into the upper registers. What thrilled the audiences was the raw power of her bright, heroic soprano, a tidal wave of a voice that all but drowned out Tenor Bruno Prevedi...
...bundle that they produced will enable Britain's central bankers to buy, buy, buy sterling-until the speculators finally get tired of selling. It was a remarkable show of ability and confidence, and it dramatically demonstrated that the world's cool money managers can perform truly heroic feats in defense of the wealth of nations...