Word: cage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hovhaness and Cage: Piano Compositions (Maro Ajemian at the piano with Alan Hovhaness assisting at piano, gong and drums; Disc, 4 sides). Hovhaness composes with ancient Armenian instruments (tar, kanoon, oud and saz) in mind, achieves a marimba-like effect on Jie piano which is near-hypnotic in its insistence on repeated notes. Maro Ajemian performs John Cage's Amores, I & IV on a Cage "prepared piano" (TIME, Feb. 22, 1943) which gives off intriguing thwacking sounds, graduated in pitch and timbre. Performance: excellent...
...Figge experimented with mice exposed to varying amounts of cosmic radiation. He varied the cosmic ray concentration by contriving a special cage with a thin lead roof, which does not stop cosmic radiation but intensifies its effect. He injected 184 mice of a susceptible strain with a chemical that almost invariably produces cancer, put some of the mice in ordinary cages and some in the special lead-covered ones. Sure enough, the mice exposed to more intense cosmic radiation developed cancer much faster than the others. Dr. Figge's conclusion: cosmic jays, acting on body cells, may help develop...
Mike never moulded any policy here. But roaming his Soldiers Field domain, and particularly the Briggs Cage and Stadium environs, he added a sort of "most unforgettable character" dignity to the unromantic job of groundskeeper. Clad in blue dungarees with long blue sleeves sticking out, rubbers over his shoes and an old golfing cap perched on a white thatch, he moved around mostly in the background...
...relatively dry field, and a trace of real baseball weather in the air lured the batsmen into the great outdoors, along with a sprinkling of team uniforms, baseball chatter, and interested onlookers. Practice Monday and prior to the vacation road trip was held in the dusky confines of Briggs Cage...
Shortly after nightfall the first 30-man crew shouldered the straps of oxygen tanks, pulled on masks and walked like Martians to the big cage elevator. It began its 540-ft. descent. After that, every four hours, night & day, a new rescue crew went down. Every four hours a black-faced, exhausted gang came up and terror hung in the tipple as women studied their faces. After a while bodies came up, too, each one on a stretcher, and each covered, neatly, but not warmly, by a blanket...