Word: dependently
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...government and outside of it, who move back and forth, do so, it seems to me, for two basic reasons. One, to maintain independence. If you have worked in more than one locus successfully, if you have more than one professional home, so to speak, you are not solely dependent on your current job to survive. You don't depend unwhole-somely on that one boss, on that next efficiency report, or on defending the status quo of that one department or agency. You can quit tomorrow if you want or need to, with a place to go, without being...
...success of the strike ultimately will depend on how many BGMA workers decide not to work. The Union has no strike funds and some members are reportedly disturbed at the idea of using Commencement as leverage...
There's not much discrimination in the army. For all you know your life may depend on someone and you just don't go around making enemies because it's possible some day he might have the choice between saving your life and not saving your life. In fact, a lot of medics who aren't good end up getting killed by their own men. After all, they're conscientious objectors...
...Paul Conrad's cover cartoon of the leading presidential contenders [April 14] does reward "a few moments of savoring contemplation," but the really intriguing figure is the horse. This mean-and unpredictable-looking animal probably symbolizes the electorate upon whose support each "jockey" must ultimately depend. Is there not, however, an outside chance that it represents a "dark horse" candidate? A Mustang for Ford Foundation President McGeorge Bundy? A symbol of the long-departed past for Barry Goldwater? Or perhaps it is not a horse at all, but a mule standing for George Wallace's stubbornness...
...composer a personal tribute, Blackwood followed the Five Pieces with his own Three Short Fantasies, Op. 16 and John Perkins' Caprice (1963), which Blackwood commissioned when the two composers were colleagues at the University of Chicago. Both works begin with Schoenbergian flurries of pianistic cacophony; both depend for internal variety on the alternaton of different timbres, registers, and pianistic effects; and both are long--perhaps too long for the basically epigrammatic nature of the twelve-tone idiom. Without demeaning the compositions themselves, I must say that by the time Blackwood got to the Perkins Caprice, the startling newness and intriguing...