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Boulez' is a consciously strange tongue. In the first concerts of modern music after the Liberation from the Nazis, Boulez, then a 20 year old student, led a riot of students "to protest the neo-classical works of Stravinsky." In 1960, at a symposium on "Where is True Tradition?" Boulez proclaimed, "For me there is no tradition. That is a word of the theoreticians of music... The work is the important thing. The past takes on a new face after a work. I make tradition; I do not have tradition behind...
...architect who had built an entire city in India, the site of the proposed building at Harvard University must have looked no bigger than a 50-franc note. The new Visual Arts Center that Harvard wanted France's irascible Le Corbusier to build was to stand between the neo-Georgian Faculty Club on busy Quincy Street and the more heavy-handed neo-Georgian Fogg Art Museum only yards away. How could the master of "brutal"' architecture put up anything that would not look like a brash intruder? Last week the center was in full operation, and Harvard...
...prose. He writes "Israel has upon occasion been viewed as an oblique and indirect link with Europe and the West, but in a form precluding any semblance of neocolonialism." That might be Goldman's opinion; but if Miss Shrader is to be believed Israel has consistently been associated with neo-colonialism by African politicians. Even if the charge is largely for propaganda purposes it must be reckoned with, as Americans must recognize the widespread anti-Yankee sentiment in Latin America...
...seminar series on Africa will open at 7:30 p.m. tonight in Sever 37 with a speech by Immanuel Wallerstein, African scholar at Columbia University, on the history and uses of the idea of neo-colonialism...
Afterwards, African and American members of the seminars will begin discussing the charge that the grant of independence to many African countries has been a deception, because they remain heavily dependent upon former colonial powers. The seminars are all aimed at an examination of neo-colonialism...