Word: eared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...intellect, taste and dignity about this musical, which presents history as if painted by a sidewalk sketch artist, relying on calcified profiles of the principal signers of the Declaration of Independence rather than searching character penetration. The score might have led Van Gogh to dispose of his remaining ear, and a brigade of crippled pigeons could have performed better dance numbers...
...spared those moldy chestnuts that New York play-scripters toss at Philadelphia is to guess wrong. Sample torpid humor: "At the stage when most men prosper, I live in Philadelphia on three dollars a day." The musical score might have led Van Gogh to dispose of his remaining ear, and a brigade of crippled pigeons could have performed better dance numbers. There is a degradation of intellect, taste and dignity about the entire musical. The men involved were the architects of a great republic, men of passion, probity and reason. Touched with some impalpable and mysterious inspiration, they proved...
...training room, he could be called an athletic Sigmund Freud. He listens with an attentive ear and reaches careful prognoses with the person in mind--and when needed he has a temper that disarms most hypochondriacs and malingerers...
After living with these attacks for the past year and watching the poor Vietnamese cower in terror, I am convinced that the Communist world has the ear of the world press to the exclusion of all other views...
Whistles and Whips. Most of Xenakis' ear-jarring music is an extension in sound of the calculus of probability, one of whose basic concepts is Bernoulli's law of large numbers. It says, in effect, that the occurrence of any chance event-the roll of a seven in dice, for example, or the random collision of stray molecules in the atmosphere-is more likely to conform to the prescribed statistical odds with each successive attempt. To Xenakis, this mathematical absolute has profound philosophical meaning: it implies that the changing structure of certain events in life, including the sounds...