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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Grosjean first became interested in Corsica while studying at the Sorbonne and the Collége de France (among his teachers: Abbé Henri Breuil, the "pope" of prehistory). When he began prospecting for a dig of his own, he remembered that Corsica's prehistoric art had been written off as "very crudely sculpted" while Sardinia, only seven miles away, had yielded a rich crop of 7,000 monuments...
With his kindly Kris Kringle smile, his Katzenjammer accent and his snow-white hair, Professor Herbert Marcuse of the University of California's San Diego campus seems too charmingly ge nial to be a revolutionary. He coos over the fine fur of his rust-colored cat, Freddie, and holds a lifetime membership in the San Diego Zoo, where he affectionately favors owls, elephants and hippopotamuses. Yet whether in Berkeley or Berlin, today's youthful radicals, who are challenging the most basic premises of industrial society, increasingly turn to the writings of the aging (he will...
...that the words ("Come out to show them") gradually expand spatially from one to eight channels, creating a 13-minute study in mounting obsession. On other disks, Composer Henri Pousseur blends voices and taped sounds to make an airy sound-picture of the Belgian city of Liège, while Pauline Oliveros and Toshi Ichyanagi create broad, abstruse patterns by tinkering electronically with the sounds of chorus, organ and strings...
Died. H. H. (for Hsiang-hsi) Kung, 86, Nationalist Chinese banker politician who became brother-in-law to Ge eralissimo Chiang Kai-shek when he married into the powerful Soong banking family, as Finance Minister from 1933 to 1945 introduced the boon of standardized paper currency, but during his premiership (1939-45) was helpless against the war-wrought inflation that left China sliding toward bankruptcy, after which he was eased into honorary jobs and retirement in the U.S.; of heart disease; in Manhattan...
After a month of operation, Turquet believes that his pristine store, where the whir of a Bull-GE TAS-84 computer has replaced the clang of pushcarts and the monotony of canned music, is a going concern. His profit margin is 15%, his stock turns over every two weeks, and, says he, "the 2% other supermarkets have to deduct in theft losses ev ery month pays my rental fee for the computer...