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...prevalent in folk music (for example, the notes sounded by the five black keys on the piano), Kodály's method uses games and pictures to introduce painlessly the basic concepts of musical structure and notation. The result is that thousands of students learn to read com plex scores as easily as a column of figures by the time they reach the eighth grade. Best of all, says Kodály, the children become skillful performers on "a beautiful musical instrument"-the hu man voice. He believes that singing not only provides "the best foundation of musicality...
...there are many film makers who believe that international festival com petition is the only way that the U.S. cinema can hope to improve its quality. Hollywood Producer Robert Radnitz, who was a panel member at last year's New York Festival, thought it was "a great festival. The most exciting thing was the number of young people who came, despite the high ticket prices. If kids will go out and pay that much money to see foreign films, it drives another nail into the coffin of the Hollywood syndrome of catering to the twelve-year-old mind that...
When housewives grumble, politicians tremble. Thus the Federal Trade Com mission has launched a full-scale investigation into milk and bread price increases. A House subcommittee has held hearings about bread costs. In New York City, the city council has undertaken an all-out probe of food prices; and State Attorney General Louis Lefkowitz has filed suit seeking a court injunction against further milk price hikes. In Pennsylvania, where dairymen recently posted a 2?-per-qt. milk price raise, Lieutenant Governor Raymond P. Shafer, the G.O.P. candidate for Governor, persuaded them to roll back to the old 28?-qt. line...
...picture is an adaptation of John Cheevers short story about Neddy's attempt to drown his troubles with what he thinks is a lark - a nine-pool, cross-country swim and portage to his home. But the real lark is for the Fairfield gawkers to watch a film com pany at work in their own backyards...
...edged investments. Philip Hill, whose directors held their salaried jobs by right of talent alone, was brash, inventive and daring. With Philip Hill's top man, a rugged ex-lieutenant colonel of the Welsh Guards named Kenneth Alexander Keith, 49, as deputy chairman and chief executive of the com bine, the Hill team pushed ahead with deals that offended the traditional can ons of the Samuel group, and often did so without telling them. Managing a takeover of Selfridge's, the London department store, the Hill faction went so far as to raise its bid for shares with...