Word: colors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Debussy is the father of modern music, and Pierre Boulez is one of France's leading musical experimenters. To hear how Boulez handles these familiar works is to be reminded of how radical they are. "Debussy inaugurated a new and extremely personal type of sonorous universe, new in color as well as in mobility," says Boulez. By simply trusting the new sounds instead of trying to force them into old melodic patterns, he has made his own revolution in the interpretation of Debussy. An important record...
THAT was TIME, just a little over a year old, reporting on its first presidential nominating convention 44 years ago. The story, while distilling all the essential facts, leaned heavily on the color of straw hats flying, placards pumping and delegations drowning out one another in a near unanimous renomination of Calvin Coolidge. Then, few Americans ever got a chance to witness a convention; today, millions watch the spectacle on TV. As a result, though colorful detail is still an important element in good reporting, it is only the beginning of the reporter's search for what really happened...
...Raymond Shafer set up shop aboard a $400,000 oceanography mother ship, the Undersea Hunter, moored in Indian Creek, directly across from the Fontainebleau. In addition to carrying a 22-ft.-long, four-man yellow submarine designed to probe the ocean floor, the mother ship boasts a news ticker, color TV, telephones, air conditioning and staterooms...
...invented constructivism? The question might once have seemed academic. But in the past decade as art has trended ever more sharply in the direction of hard-edged abstract geometry - in color-field and op painting, in kinetic and minimal sculpture, constructivism has been increasingly recognized as a wellspring of ideas that many of to day's artists find congenial and espouse as their...
...sales that exceeded the previous year's by 40%. Net income rose to $6.3 million from $2.3 million on sales that soared from $111.4 million to $155.5 million. Chairman Joseph S. Wright and President Sam Kaplan said that the gain was due to improved sales in both color and black-and-white television, stereos, portable phonographs and radios...