Word: eighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whole thing and start again. His long opera The Sunken Bell (1923) occupied his time for 13 years. And just when it was near completion, Ruggles threw the score aside in a furious fit of dissatisfaction and abandoned it forever. That helps to explain why he has produced only eight works that total a mere 90-minutes' worth of music-which in turn explains why so few Americans have ever heard of Ruggles or his work...
...methods-not Stravinsky's, Bartok's, Webern's or Berg's-would suffice. And so, what he worked out for himself was a tone-clustered, highly contrapuntal and dissonant style. By his self-imposed rules, no note in a melodic line could be repeated until eight or so others had intervened. His work has an atonal quality that often sounds like Schoenberg's middle-period serialism. Yet Ruggles had no use for the strict twelve-tone row, which he called "a dog chasing its tail." He evolved his own technique. "You know that place...
Short-Lived Title. Lately, the ailing nucleus of the city has been making a remarkable recovery. A burst of new construction-gleaming office towers, bank headquarters and a handsome civic center for the arts-has rejuvenated much of the area. Over the past eight years, the city's businessmen have committed $800 million for downtown building and remodeling. By 1970, that investment will yield 9,000,000 sq. ft. of new office space, almost twice as much as was built downtown in the first 60 years of the century. In the process of rejuvenation, the old heart...
...able and wealthy lawyer who traced his ancestry to the nation's first Attorney General, Civil Libertarian Biddle often objected to the decisions of the times-as when thousands of Japanese nationals were interned following the attack on Pearl Harbor. He felt no qualms, however, in dealing with eight Nazi agents smuggled into the country in 1942, and demanded stiff sentences (six were executed). At Nurnberg, he staunchly defended the legality of the trials, noting that "criminal acts are committed by individuals, not by nations...
Over 500 Cambridge residents, seated in eight caucuses under signs identifying the various neighborhoods, have come together to present their solutions to the increasingly aggravated housing shortage that plagues the whole city. It is an exercise in grass-roots democracy. The resolutions they have been offering represent three months of local organizing in the eight areas of the city and a genuine effort to put some muscle into community power...