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...course the imperialists are still the enemy, but Peking, with its "despotism," "frantic slanders" and "chauvinism," is only giving them aid and comfort. The Chinese leaders, said Khrushchev, are producing a growing cluster of Communist splinter parties-which threaten to weaken the international Communist movement. "The imperialists must now be rubbing their hands with satisfaction. Can the great revolutionary cause be betrayed in a more vile...
According to Dean Ford, the appointments to be made this mnoth will involve areas not now covered. Although the University will remain weak in African languages. Ford said, there will be a "considerable cluster of strength" in linguistics and languages by next year...
...array of sounds he divines from his Baldwin grand are beyond the reach of academic pianists; he caresses a note with the tremble of a bejeweled finger, then stomps it into its grave with a crash of elbow and forearm aimed with astonishing accuracy at a chromatic tone cluster an octave long...
...tiny village of Ayios Sozomenos. Though only twelve miles distant from the capital city of Nicosia, the village is centuries away in time. To reach it, one travels four miles along a rutted road off the main asphalt highway and then some two miles over goat trails before the cluster of tile-roofed houses is dis covered crowded between a dry watercourse and a steep mesa of grey rock...
Someone--soloists or chorus-sings remarks such as these throughout; except for the coda, there is only one measure for orchestra alone. The melodies for these remarks are correspondingly simple. Most are derived by some obvious alteration from the three-note cluster with which the soprano begins the work. Harmonically, too, the whole structure is clear; the tonal center seems to move from E to C to A, then explode into B, move around to E, and then conclude...