Word: frequent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...guitar, xylophone and muted cowbell flights as vaporous and softly glowing as a Japanese watercolor. Cohn's Quotations, on the other hand, utilized 103 instruments (including the exposed strings of a grand piano, which one player walloped with a lamb's-wool-covered drumstick) to achieve frequent climaxes of crashing, ear-numbing virtuosity. But the composition's most effective moments were also the most subdued: a passage in which drums rolled with the distant tremble of thunder while the pod rattle and wood blocks chattered with the strident noises of night...
...shrillness in the writing, and this is pointed up by Michael Murray's somewhat overwrought direction, which tends too much toward stealthy, wildly disarrayed entrances and impassioned throwings to the ground. The play needs this sort of effect, and would be dull if Mr. Miller had not contrived frequent occasion for it; but Mr. Murray does not know quite when to stop. However, he has handled several of the crises with great skill...
...TIME. This one, showing both the new and the old ways of life of Japanese women, accompanies this week's cover story (see FOREIGN NEWS). As a dramatic document of sociological change in one of the world's great nations, it is typical of TIME's frequent, unique use of color photography to provide an added dimension to journalism...
Last week Manhattan's Bankers Trust Co., seventh biggest in the U.S., launched a plan to give customers frequent loans without bothering to make loan applications. The system, adopted so far by some 20 major banks: the customer gets a line of credit, usually from $100 to $6,000, that goes into his checking account. He then writes checks, pays back in twelve or more monthly installments, is charged 1% or more monthly interest on the outstanding balance...
...time; these are usually very soft (or else very loud); there is constant preoccupation with color: most of the music is very high or low, piano strings are plucked with the fingers, there are elaborate pedal effects, and so on. The silences have become much longer and more frequent. How, then, were the notes chosen...