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...wave brought far more serious hardships and economic dangers to Britain. Trains and trucks stood idle, schools and factories had to shut down as the coal shortage shut off heat and electric power. Office workers strained their eyes by candlelight. Water mains and pipes broke everywhere (since Britons stubbornly cling to the illusion that their winters are never very cold, water mains are not buried deep enough and many homes have rickety, poorly insulated "afterthought" plumbing, laid along outside walls). London's News Chronicle carried a cartoon depicting two Englishmen viewing an icicle-hung pipe above the caption...
...probably the most difficult of U.S. composers. His 12-year-old violin concerto bogged down all but one of the many violinists who tackled it. His orchestral works are as elaborately scored as those of Hector Berlioz, but, unlike Berlioz, Sessions seldom repeats themes to give listeners something to cling to. The new symphony's unmuted brasses were as noisy as Shostakovich's, and some passages reminded hearers of the atonalist music of Hindemith and Schonberg. Sessions, however, believes that he is closer to Hungary's late, great Bela Bartok. And he hates to be called atonal...
...course, I'm in love with it," says MacFarlan, commenting that it's the sort of car that makes "small children cling to their mothers' skirts...
...Piobaireachd was anglicized to pibroch in the 18th Century but Gaelic purists still cling to the ancient spelling...
...worse than that, he adds. With no philosophical coherence at the top, faulty and contradictory Western ideologies have been at war, like the societies that cling to them. Professor Northrop wants to find a worldwide philosophical formula that will synthesize the best of East and West. He does not believe the answer lies in the West going off the deep end into the mysticism of the East (as Aldous Huxley, Christopher Isherwood and other Anglo-American intellectuals seem to have done). Nor does he believe that the East should drop its own culture for Westernisms...