Word: hearing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DEBUSSY: LA MER, L'APRES-MIDI D'UN FAUNE, JEUX (CBS). Claude Debussy is the father of modern music, and Pierre Boulez is one of France's leading musical experimenters. To hear how Boulez handles these familiar works is to be reminded of how radical they are. "Debussy inaugurated a new and extremely personal type of sonorous universe, new in color as well as in mobility," says Boulez. By simply trusting the new sounds instead of trying to force them into old melodic patterns, he has made his own revolution in the interpretation of Debussy. An important...
...more of the outcries, however, were couched in rhetoric that reflected personal anguish and disappointment at the decision. "You are not speaking as our Pope," protested Jesuit Philosopher Norris Clarke before a cheering crowd of 1,000 at a Fordham University symposium on the encyclical. "We can't hear you. We demand that you do not speak to us this...
...young are not listening to their elders, and perhaps they never have. But now it develops that with many of them, the reason may be medical. The young aren't listening because they can't hear. Just as nagging parents have long suspected, otologists now report that youngsters are going deaf as a result of blasting their eardrums with electronically amplified rock 'n' roll...
...problem closest to home, and studied it there, was George T. Singleton, an ear, nose and throat man at the University of Florida. He noticed that when he picked up his teen-age daughter Marsha after a dance she couldn't hear what he said in the car on the way home. Singleton recruited a research team and tested the hearing often 14-year-old ninth-graders an hour before a dance. Then tne investigators went to the dance hall, and found the average sound intensity to be 106 to 108 db in the middle of the dance floor...
...youngsters immerse themselves in noise that is so uncomfortable to their elders? A Florida teenager explained: "The sounds embalm you. They numb you. You don't want to hear others talk. You don't want to talk. You don't know what to say to each other anyway." So why listen? And, eventually...