Word: counter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Only the day before, President John son had publicly expressed his "regret" over the board's 4-to-3 decision to raise the discount rate in order to counter in flationary trends (TIME, Dec. 10). As sembling his quadriad of top economic advisers - Treasury Secretary Fowler, Council of Economic Advisers Chair man Gardner Ackley, Budget Director Charles Schultze, and Martin himself-in Texas, Johnson discussed the state of the economy with them for two hours...
...more concern to non-Catholics are the documents that clearly define the end of the church's Counter Reformation hostility to other faiths. One is the much rewritten constitution On the Church in the Modern World, which attempts to express the mind of Catholicism on such matters of common concern as peace and war, world poverty, industrialism, social and economic justice. A decree On Ecumenism, committing Catholicism to work for Christian unity, for the first time acknowledges Protestant bodies as churches that share God's grace and favor. The declaration On Religious Liberty states the right...
...emphasize the linear continuum (not-spatially-divided) idea of time. But rhythms are often used as a basis for improvisation. Sometimes it is merely the rhythmical imitation of the opening statement that connects the otherwise contrasting chorus to the rest of the piece. And sometimes interesting rhythms serve as counter-subjects in their own right...
...first with the Charles Mingus group, I believe, that people began commenting on a drummer using counter-subjects while other instruments were playing their choruses. This was because Mingus carried the beat so strongly on the bass. But with the need for a beat gone, Milford Graves could improvise constantly, as he did so successfully in "Sonnet." At one point, where "Sonnet" became very contrapuntal, I was getting that same exciting feeling you sometimes get with Baroque music: feeling three voices going in different directions--hearing the independent movement of each--and hearing a good total sound simultaneously...
...accept that curiously inverted, if unintentional racism which insists that a free society is appropriate for Caucasians but that communism is good enough for Asians," Handlin said. He added that only firm resistance will counter Chinese expansion...