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...What we are dealing with here is a problem of perception. Humans are equipped with an eye that perceives a very limited part of the electromagnetic spectrum, an ear that only perceive relatively low frequencies of vibrations, and a vocal apparatus that can only produce one sound at a time. We hardly know to what extent our knowledge is controlled by the physical nature of our bodies. Indeed the physical world as we understand it is merely a summation of what we perceive. What a man perceives is not what is there. His conceptualization of the world is not what...
...their sound awfully formless and abstract, but deep down they consist of just a hard drum beat, a loud bass, and Townshend's amazing chorded rhythm or lead guitar. They use virtually no sophisticated recording tricks. I guess the thing is that they have retained all of the normal apparatus of a regular old rock and roll band, but their sound is unique. The only two groups that have done remakes of Who songs are the Amboy Dukes, and Count Five, but both of them were dismal limitations. Look at the individual members of the group. Peter Townshend plays lead...
...year because the prices of their products would have to be cut by 5%. The subsidy deals are scheduled for renegotiation by 1970. That timetable could be changed but, whatever the schedule, it would be politically risky for any German government to accept substantial shifts in the monetary apparatus until the subsidy system is altered...
...Realists. Part of the Russians' satisfaction stems from their success at confining Duběek's authority within a vastly altered party apparatus. Recently the Communist Party's Central Committee met for the first time since the invasion in plenary session and took measures that diffused the country's real leadership in an eight-man "executive committee...
...more than a celebration of unfettered instinct, Zorba's heightened sense of existence comes from his sec-ond-to-second awareness of death. That is why the widow is murdered by the puritanical villagers, and why the apparatus that operates the lignite mine crashes in total disaster. Such is, says Kazantzakis, the destiny of man and all his works. This is the Greek tragic sense of life, and from it springs Zorba's credo: to live in, for and by each moment as if it were the first and the last. With this musical, one soon wishes each...