Word: drum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Whirling Drums. The transmissions began at 4 a.m. E.D.T. from Manhattan when special page proofs of the Times's regular international edition* were placed on a revolving drum. At the same time, in a small Market Street office in San Francisco, another revolving drum bearing page-sized photographic film was made ready to roll. As the drums spun in unison 1,500 times a minute, electronic equipment carried impulses along the transcontinental circuit and converted them back into light, forming an image of the page on the film. A four-man technical crew supervised by Timesman E. Clifton Daniel...
...words. First as students, then as instructors at Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music, they experimented with piano sound by placing all kinds of objects among the strings, a method pioneered by Composer John Cage, who called it "prepared piano." In 1948 they succeeded in producing a thudding drum effect (by shoving pieces of rubber between the strings) and used it in their version of Ravel's Bolero. Their latest effort is even weirder. The tunes in Soundproof (Greensleeves, Baia, Lover) contain effects that resemble giant rubber bands being plucked, the click of a tack hammer, xylophones...
...Lady recording, on the other hand, contains all the songs but little of the dramatic action with which to recreate Bernard Shaw's famed Pygmalion (on which the show is based). To suggest the belligerent action of Just You Wait, 'Enery 'Iggins, Producer Lieberson added a drum roll under Julie Andrews' vocal; for the poignance of Rex Harrison's acting during I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face, he added a solo violin playing the tune. The resulting record has an atmosphere all its own and is a delight to the ear-even...
...Class returned after a summer that saw the Stock Market continue to rise, the Yankees annihilate all opposition, and the refreshing encouragement that a Republican would remain in the White House. Back at Harvard, the Band now claimed that it possessed "the largest playable drum in the world." Times were so good that no one listened when Owen Lattimore claimed that the Soviet Party would become dominant in China within the next few years...
Landy expected to win, and he did. His strongest competitor, Villanova's Ron Delany, is clearly not in his class. But he had come to the U.S. in the first place to beat the drum for the Olympics by breaking his own record. With no one to breathe down his neck on the last lap, he ran an easy and unsatisfying 3:59.1. "It was just a run," he said later. "It's a little ridiculous to break four minutes so often and still not break my record...