Word: fragmentism
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Fantastic stories about him abound, and Mr. Beecham is already well in process of becoming a legend in his own lifetime. Here is one fragment relating to a musical memory that is all but a miracle. Bending down to his orchestral leader just before an opera performance was about to begin, Beecham whispered. "We are playing Figaro tonight, are we not?" "Oh,no, Sir Thomas." said the leader in alarm, "it is Seraglio!" "My dear fellow, you amaze me!" said Beecham. With that, he closed the Figaro score on his desk and proceeded to conduct the whole of Seraglio from...
Finding out how the pieces fitted back together was much harder. Sometimes Sanger and his group would find in their analysis some substance that does not appear in the known chemistry of living things. This, they decided, must be a taillike fragment knocked off some larger fragment. They would shift it around, like a piece in a jigsaw puzzle, until they found a spot where it could be placed to form a familiar compound. Little by little, their picture of the insulin molecule took on detail. At last they were sure they knew where each building block belonged...
With these slim clues to go on, Price recalled a fragment of knowledge picked up from his studies. There was a famous man in 1391 who wrote about astronomy. The same man had a friend at Merton whom he called "The Philosophical Strode." Could it be that the author of MS. 75-a "lewde compilator of the labour of old astrologiens"-was Geoffrey Chaucer himself...
Moony's Kid Don't Cry, the shorter of the two, was the opener and had a cast of two. It is, of course, not a play in the broad sense; it a fragment, an episode in the lives of two people, and as such relies on the individual portrayals for its basic appeal. I found both Donald Stewart and Madelon Hambro more than capable of meeting this challenge; they were able to establish full characterizations in a short period of time with apparent case. Although local theatergoers have had the privilege of watching Stewart before, Miss Hambro, an Emerson...
...dance around obediently in response to electrical forces provided to act upon them. A transistor has no filament or vacuum, only a speck of hard germanium cut from a silvery crystal. But the mobile electrons are there, flashing through the empty channels between the ordered atoms of the crystal fragment...