Word: chordings
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There is, undeniably, a chord of tastefulness which beats quietly beneath the loud cacophony. Aesthetic quality is recognized when presented, not immediately perhaps, but eventually. And in the colleges, the few who choose and act and invent are tacitly recognized and admired. The admiration may lead to imitation, and the imitation to experimentation, and again, possible and hopefully, a renaissance of sprit, new color appearing amidst the grey...
...Silver Chord. In Dearborn, Mich., Gerald Kiwak was puzzled at the parakeet sitting on his fence squawking "luzonone-fournineninetwo," until his mother tried the number, returned the bird to its relieved owner-trainer...
Here is both an eye for strength, unconfused with violence or misplaced emotion, and a feeling for lyric poetry, unconfounded with sweetness or saccharine romanticism. Aside from a few false notes, the chord rings true throughout...
Haydn's "Surprise" Symphony is so called because, after 15 bars of charming, tinkling music, the whole orchestra suddenly crashes into a shattering fortissimo chord. But as played in a British Columbia album, the symphony contains several surprises not in Haydn's score, including snatches from old-style Chicago jazz records, an ocarina solo and a septet of bottles-five hot-water and two beer...
...producers arbitrarily changed their rules to enable Schoolboy Strom to win as much as $256,000, and devised new rules to let Clerk Nadler keep winning too. More important, a kind of inflation has also hit the contestants: instead of the kind of ordinary people who struck a responsive chord in viewers, they now run to narrow specialists and photographic minds-"freaks," as the trade calls them. Given a margin of error for the contestants' human foibles, the producers seem to be able to control virtually everything-except their own fears of losing their audience...