Word: cage
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...George Wanat was more bitter than most about his captivity with the Viet Cong. He told his father in Waterford, Conn., "I'd kill those bastards if I ever saw them again." He reported that he had been kept in solitary confinement for five months "in a bamboo cage full of ants and poisonous snakes." His diet, he said, was rice and pork fat, rationed at one bowl a day, plus some water...
...incurred an injured leg on his first jump. He came back after that to make one more effort before retiring for the day and came up with a fine winning effort of 23'8". In Vanderpoole-Wallace's absence, freshman Huseyin Kayali took the triple jump with a Cox Cage record distance of 47'7" in what Harvard coach Bill McCurdy termed a "major surprise...
...ACADEMY IN PERIL; John Cale (Reprise, $5.98). A bizarre, whimsical but steadfastly intriguing serving of pop esoterica from a young composer who has worked with both John Cage and the rock group, Velvet Underground. Cale's orchestral writing (played by the Royal Philharmonic) often sounds like ersatz Charles Ives, Cale's piano parts (played by Cale himself) like sleepy Debussy. Yet within their pop context, they possess a kind of "laid-back" mood that may just appeal to the rock young...
...audience's reception could hardly be called anything more than polite. The score is one of those seemingly loveless works that, like virtually the entire catalogue of John Cage, may eventually turn out to be more important as philosophical statement than as musical expression. The odds are good, for example, that it will never be any more popular than Arnold Schoenberg's atonal manifesto of 1912, Pierrot Lunaire; yet it could well rival its historical importance...
...other. For instance, both men and women can mother children-the necessary circuits are there in every brain-but the "threshold" for releasing this behavior is higher in males than in females. The same phenomenon is demonstrated by laboratory animals. If a mature female rat is put into a cage with newborn rats, she begins mothering them at once. In a similar situation, a male rat does nothing at first, but after a few days he too begins to display maternal behavior...