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...Other Shoe. Gary Player, who has a reputation for being equally sure of himself, lost much of his aplomb at the P.G.A. He was the target of third-round harassment by an ad hoc civil rights group that felt the Dayton Chamber of Commerce might better have applied its energies to the city's ghetto problems than to sponsoring the P.G.A. tournament...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Golf: The Confidence Man | 8/29/1969 | See Source »

Part of the LP's influence has to do with distribution. Today virtually every form of sound known to and made by man, from primitive African chants to serialistic chamber music - "the old, the new, the modern, the academic, the screwball," as Conductor Erich Leinsdorf puts it - is easily available to increasingly sophisticated listeners. What the composer writes is indelibly affected by that fact. Italy's Luciano Berio notes that Debussy was influenced by Javanese music, but had to discover it by pure chance. If it had not been per formed at the Paris Universal Exhibition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Lp: Shaping Things to Come | 8/29/1969 | See Source »

...against the other - one to a stereo channel - and each has its accompanying coterie of winds and strings. The resulting dialogue is almost Joycean in its plural textures and moment-to-moment subtleties. Recording studios also offer new technical means of composing, through such devices as the echo chamber, multi-track recording and tape superimposition. "In this way," says Poland's Krzysztof Penderecki, "the process of recording itself has become a means of composition as well as communication." Of course, none of this technical expertise would be possible without tape, on which all LPs are originally recorded. And there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Lp: Shaping Things to Come | 8/29/1969 | See Source »

...soundest government that Italy has ever had. It commands no majority in the Chamber of Deputies and must rely on its former Socialist allies for cooperation. Moreover, Rumor has agreed to disband his government as soon as the Socialists patch up their quarrels and are once more able to participate in a coalition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy: Rumor Has It Again | 8/15/1969 | See Source »

...government. After three unsuccessful attempts he resorted to what is known in Italian politics as The Ultimate Weapon: he threatened to advise President Giuseppe Saragat to call new elections. Few people hate the expense of campaigning more than Italians, and many of the 630 members of the Chamber of Deputies are still paying off campaign debts from last year's national elections...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy: Rumor Has It Again | 8/15/1969 | See Source »

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