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...wind, string and percussion players, is a Calderian example of what Brown calls "conceptual mobility." Each of its six pages contains five musical "events," which the instrumentalists play on specific orders from the conductor. In front of the podium is a numbered board with a sliding red arrow; the conductor moves the arrow to give the page and holds up one or more fingers to indicate the event he wants played. To Brown, a work like Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is "closed form," meaning that no options to choose materials are given to the conductor. In "open-form" music...
...City, Kans.; and that's where he grew up. He wore short pants until he was twelve, then went downtown on the streetcar with his mother to get his first pair of knickers. Automobiles were still symbols of success; a dad with an Apperson 8 or a Pierce-Arrow or a Hupmobile was forgiven if he showed off a bit by taking the family for a Sunday drive. Radios were primitive; sales of Atwater Kents and RCA Radiolas only began to climb when magazine ads of the '20s proclaimed that "the thrill of radio is no longer...
...most secure foothold is in science. They are telling us things about molecular structure and aero-dynamics. In hard-to-quantify sciences like linguistics or psychology they are partly hamstrung; they can't tell the difference between sentences like "Fruit flies like a banana" and "Time flies like an arrow." But they have created their own languages which people must use to communicate with them, and these computer languages throw light on the mysteries of human speech...
Unliterary Acquaintance. Even with symbolism and cold-war politics set aside, the book presents some special difficulties, especially for American readers. No country has had more secondhand exposure to sickroom scenarios than the U.S. It is not, as one might expect, recollections of The Magic Mountain or nostalgia for Arrow smith that lends a slight feeling of familiarity to some of Cancer Ward's harrowing episodes. It is an unliterary acquaintance with those romans-fleuves of the air waves, TV's medical melodramas. Most Americans have seen it all already-the devoted old doctor who sees the symptoms...
According to Newfield, there will be no such action at Harvard, but The Movement Center across from Adams House on Arrow Street will show movies and hold discussion groups...