Word: exactement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Markevitch now juggles two orchestras, the Lamoureux and the Montreal Symphony, spends the rest of his time guest conducting about the world and teaching. His special interest is working out a more exact conducting vocabulary; strictly defined movements by the conductor, he feels, ought to evoke a strictly standardized response from the orchestra. But he is also concerned about the response of his music-glutted audiences. "To have Beethoven coming out of the radio tap from morning to night," says Markevitch, "is worse than not knowing Beethoven...
...cesium clock need only tune his waves until he gets absorption. Then he will know accurately the frequency (i.e., vibrations per second) of his waves, which can be displayed on an oscilloscope and used as reference scale. In effect, the cesium clock permits scientists to chop time into exact fractions of microseconds...
Marking off the state of Wisconsin on his right hand last week, Massachusetts' Senator John Kennedy made a tentative reading of his future-April 5, to be exact, when Wisconsin voters turn out for the critical presidential primary. The thumb looked healthier by the day: Congressional Districts 4, 5, 6 and 8, along the East Coast, were strong Kennedy country; he even strengthened it by giving himself the doubtful First, at the base of his thumb. Still uncertain was the area running roughly from the middle finger to the pinkie-the Second, Seventh, Ninth, and Tenth. That is where...
Meeting of Left & Right. Is all this surrealistic? Not exactly. The surrealists startled the world in the 1930s with part sexual and part malicious images jigsawed into dreamlike arrangements. The new Dali is out not to shock but to seduce; he subordinates all symbols to pictorial splendor. And, like James Joyce in literature, he delights in demonstrating his utter mastery of varying techniques and styles. "Eet ees interesting que I have used on le left a very realistic technique," he murmurs, waving his enameled cane, "and on le right le technique of les pointillists." Hidden among the dots and stripes...
Katyna Ranieri: Italian Love Songs (Capitol, mono and stereo). Florence-born Singer Ranieri offers a selection of Italian pop hits-Volare, Non Dimenticar -giving them the air of tremulous yearning that seems to be part of the Italian climate. The voice is fresh and appealing, the phrasing exact, and the message as obvious as a languorous wink...