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Muzak programmers have studies that show precisely when workers get grumpy and lazy (10:30 in the morning, 3:30 in the afternoon), and they use their knowledge to plan programs of counteracting melodies, saving strong medicine such as Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo and Pass That Peace Pipe for the two big slumps. The tonic sometimes becomes addictive, as in the case of one Irving Wexler, who gets a thorough musication every day in his job as Miami's Muzak man. "I have Muzak in every room of my home," he says proudly. "Twenty-four hours a day. We sleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Background Music: But It's Good for You | 8/30/1963 | See Source »

...seduced into carpentry." He put a long neck on a viola to give it "microtonal capabilities"-then he built his Surrogate Kithara, a two-deck, 16-string zither that looks like a pair of overgrown abacuses without the beads. Next came the "Bamboo Marimba" (which Partch affectionately calls "the Boo"), a 64-piece, six-tiered assembly of bamboo rods to be struck by sticks padded with felt. Rising to the grandeur of his tasks, he finally produced the Spoils of War-a big and ugly one-man band strung up on a gallows and made from artillery shell casings, cloud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Composers: Harry Isn't Kidding | 7/5/1963 | See Source »

...Partch's "corporeal music" is pleasing and oddly moving, the clucks, gurgles, thumps and thunders of his instruments sound like the score to Yojimbo, an effect that is reinforced by a recurrent and highly menacing meeeEEEOOOW! from his strings and an occasional unspecific crash that sounds like a Boo player collapsing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Composers: Harry Isn't Kidding | 7/5/1963 | See Source »

...days later, Dave Mack McGlathery, 27, a Negro employed at the U.S. space research center at Redstone Arsenal, went to the University of Alabama's Extension Center at Huntsville and registered for night classes in mathematics. Not a single hiss, boo or catcall was audible. Governor Wallace did not even bother to show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Races: The Long March | 6/21/1963 | See Source »

...yoor March 8 ishoo. I won't pass judgment on phonics as a tule for teaching Jonny to read, but I must doubt that it improves his spelling. There are simply tew many exceptions to the rool-even when 'tew os get together tew say "boo." For example...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 29, 1963 | 3/29/1963 | See Source »

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