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Gerhard's music is splashed with cliff-hanging melodies that grow out of his insistence that twelve-tone composition need not always be atonal. "There are alarming signs that composition with twelve tones may become a Cause," he wrote while working on his symphony, then proved his freedom from causes by building his music on rhythmic patterns outlawed by the canons of serial technique. The First Symphony opens with a lively burst of serial figures, repeated over and over in headstrong violation of Schoenberg's rules. Rushing excitement then gives way to the eerie calm of the second...
Bitter Berliners. What it has meant over the past weeks is a breathtaking display of cliff-walking by der Alte, as he alternately flirted with the potent Socialists and with the Free Democrats to find a workable coalition. What finally emerged was a 21-man Cabinet in which most of the top men, such as Economics Minister Erhard, Foreign Minister Gerhard Schroder and Special Affairs Minister Heinrich Krone, retained their old jobs. It is a Cabinet somewhat younger than the previous one, and more conservative...
Last year the Crimson basketball varsity opened its season against a classy Williams five in a contest that set the tone for a dismal and frustrating Harvard season. The Crimson blew a 16-point lead and dropped a cliff-hanger in the final seconds of play...
Defying the Experts. Cliff Garrett is a volatile, heavy-handed manager who likes to say that he built his company "on thin air." After aeronautic experts told him in the 1930s that men could never fly in the rarefied atmosphere above 12,000 ft., he profitably proved that they could-in his pressurized cabins. He also defied the medical experts who told him after a stroke three years ago that he would never walk again. Today he tramps truculently over his 20-acre plant, snapping orders and picking at details...
Starting out in 1926 as a 50?-an-hour stockroom clerk at Lockheed Aircraft, Seattle-born Cliff Garrett soon realized that if planes were to fly faster and farther, they must also fly higher. He launched a small aircraft toolmaking company, hired engineers to experiment with pressurization. The Army Air Corps laughed off Garrett's far-out ideas. With the outbreak of World War II the chuckles turned to intense interest...