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...were attended by hard-core traditionalists who touched off riots with whistles and rattles. Penderecki merely answered with some noisemakers of his own, scored one piece for woodwinds, musical saws, files, sirens, typewriters and electric bells, not to ignore the percussionist whose work entailed assaulting a log with a handsaw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Composers: What's the Score? | 10/14/1966 | See Source »

...playing it safe and plans to award a $300,000 grant to a university for further UFO studies. But until UFOs decide to show up, stay, and give some account of themselves, the majority of mankind, who, like Hamlet, think that they can tell a hawk from a handsaw when the wind is right, can be pardoned for withholding judgment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Heavenly Bogeys | 9/2/1966 | See Source »

...Here is a writer, a young new U.S. writer, who instinctively differentiates between the hawk of living and the handsaw of existing. Make no mistake, Ernest Hemingway is somebody; a new honest, un-'literary' transcriber of life-a Writer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Jul. 14, 1961 | 7/14/1961 | See Source »

...civilization's attics are its museums. Here yesterday's knickknacks are squirreled away, in the somewhat less haphazard hope that some of them will turn to treasure. The custodians of civilization's attics must be knowledgeable men, able to tell a hawk from a handsaw, for their yesterday goes back to history's dawn, and their attic's room-like their budget -is strictly limited. Peering at relics is an increasingly popular pastime, for mankind is increasingly curious about the past, and its tenacious connection with the present. This is the case for museums...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Custodian of the Attic | 12/29/1952 | See Source »

Since most of them could tell a hawk from a handsaw, most picked Russia (an Aquarian) as the new No. 1 European power. For the U.S. (another Aquarian), they saw the No. 1 Western Hemispheric spot, all mixed up by an annoying wave of accidents, sex poaching, labor strife, inflation and political ferment, caused by the unfortunate fact that Uranus is moving through the sign of Gemini...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PEOPLE: Will I Succeed? | 3/25/1946 | See Source »

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