Word: disc
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Today, when we want to hear music, we flip on the compact disc player...
...people know that the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was also a composer of some accomplishment, and two new CDs should introduce his music to a wider audience. One CD consists of 16 works for the piano, while the other disc contains 16 songs set to poems by Nietzsche, R?ckert, Pushkin and others. Most of the pieces on both CD's were composed in Nietzsche's youth, between 1861 1864. The piano works show a definite lack of formal training but a "true melodic gift," says TIME reviewer Elliott Ravetz, and the songs are "genuinely affecting...
...trekked over to his audio compact disc player, but raised his hand, preventing me from explaining to him that CDROM's couldn't be played on your average Sony shelf system. He reached for a compilation CD of all the James Bond movies and queued the CD to repeatedly play the introductory Bond theme. He then dashed around the room--in a frenzy I haven't seen since the OS/2 Presentation Manager days--making sure to hit the power switch on his computer before he got too tired...
...nineties student, it means a compact disc. That is, unless you're an Ec concentrator--then it means certificate of deposit. But to the Harvard student of the early sixties, CD stood for civil defense was at the core of an intense political, psychological and scientific debate that prompted 500 Harvard students to protest in front of the White House while others wrote editorials and responses to editorials back in Cambridge...
...Nunc Hic aut Numquam? Or his heartbreaking rendition of Tenere Me Ama? Well, chalk it up to sic gloria: a Finnish professor, Jukka Ammondt, has translated several of the singer's hits into Latin and, with the vocals provided by Finland's Eurovision Choir, put them on a compact disc. "Latin," says Ammondt, "is an eternal language, so what better way to immortalize a legend...