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Leipzig music lovers gasped when Henry Cowell sat down at the piano: the young American composer was slamming the keys with his forearms. When he continued the attack with forearms, fingers and fists, Leipzigers got to their feet, and the anti-forearm group tangled with the let's-hear-him-out crowd. The police, that evening in 1923, finally led a score of the noisiest demonstrators away...
...music of the past three decades. Last week, for the 25th anniversary of his first regular teaching appointment, Manhattan's New School for Social Research staged a retrospective concert of his music. To mid-century ears, Cowell's once-daring innovations sounded misty and soothing. His forearm "tone clusters'' (in Trumpet of Angus Og and Deep Tides) aroused no indignant gasps. When he reached into the vitals of the piano to stroke and pluck the strings (in How Old Is Song), the effect was gently harplike. One movement of his Violin Sonata sounded rather like...
Thus Creel amputated his forearm. Holding the arm against his ribs and squeezing it with his right hand to stanch the bleeding, he walked a mile to the nearest house, where he got a towel for a crude tourniquet. Two hours after the accident, he got to a hospital in Hattiesburg. Professionals tidied up his rough & ready surgery, and Creel was soon resting easily. Then he expressed his chief fear: that the amputation might make it harder for him to support his wife and baby...
...intricacies of voting. They got a tremendous reception, especially when word got around that the trucks had a juju that could forecast betrothal dates for the village girls. But C.P.P. did even better. They provided the Gold Coasters with a slogan ("Free-DOM"), a salute (a raised forearm with all five fingers outspread to denote the Five Freedoms), and a vision of Utopia. They also had a hero: Nkrumah, "rotting in jail." Outside Jamestown prison, where Nkrumah sat mending fish nets in Cell No. 9, demonstrators sang...
...footed Indian women and black West Indians lined up to deposit ballots marked (to aid the illiterate) with party symbols: a bell, a horseman, an ear of corn. Then, as a double precaution against double voting, each digged his fingers in a pot of indelible ink and presented his forearm to let one square inch of hair be shaved...