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...until well into the final period did Harvard really come close to increasing its lead. Mac O'Malley, lying on the ground in front of the Indian nets, drove through an amazing shot,' only to have it nullified on the freak call of "dangerous play...
...Song of the Flea-note for note, pitch for pitch. The vocal range she developed eventually settled into an astonishing reach of three octaves -minus one note-more than enough | to sing both Tristan and Isolde. But every sound she is capable of making is required by the freak music she now sings. At 35, Cathy Berberian is the first lady of far-out song...
Turn-of-the-century scientists theorized that the cannons' ascending roar had been bent by a freak atmospheric condition that sent it tumbling back to earth. But not until men began probing the upper atmosphere with instrumented rockets could the conditions that caused this sound bounce be fully understood. Early this month, scientists at the White Sands Missile Range used a phenomenon like that at Victoria's funeral to help them chart a region of the upper atmosphere...
Frontiers of Sound. Since he is both a Negro and blind, Kirk is conditioned to frustration, but he resents any suggestion that he is a musical freak. And his tautly phrased solos on individual instruments at Manhattan's cavernous Village Gate last week refuted any illusion that he is a gimmicky stunt man. A pair of Down Beat awards by inter national jazz critics in the past two years attest his achievement...
...noisy carnival with academic and social pretentions. All the members of Boston's growing aristocracy, every significant member of the various New England governments, royalists, patriots, Anglicans, and Calvinists, all attended the great Commencements of the eighteenth century and were followed there by spectacle-seeking hordes. Vending booths and freak shows were set up along the streets in the College vicinity; there were elephants, mermaids, mummies, and mutants, all ostensibly celebrating Harvard's annual Commencement...