Word: heights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...music. Much of Western music is an ex pressive artistic message delivered-as if in a package-directly to the listener. Indian music attempts to induce a loftier, more profound emotional and spiritual state in the listener through a steady, stroboscopic kind of rhythmic and melodic bedazzlement. At the height of a raga, says Shankar, "it is utter joy, uninhibited, that an artist experiences. The raga, the musician, the listeners, all become one." That is something that India's Ravi Shankar may say without offending anyone...
Whatever McCarthy's feelings may have been about Robert Kennedy as a rival, he was willing to give up nine months of effort for Ted last week. Sounded out by Stephen Smith, Kennedy's brother-in-law, at the height of the Teddy boomlet, McCarthy offered to throw all his weight to the last surviving brother. "Smith said Teddy wouldn't go for it if he had to fight with me," McCarthy recounted. "I told him he wouldn't have to fight with me. I told him I was willing to give all the strength...
...cars. Several Arab passersby were chased and severely beaten -and so was one young Israeli who was mistaken for an Arab. Shops and cafes were damaged, and one howling gang broke into an Arab-owned liquor store and shattered practically every bottle on its well-stocked shelves. At the height of the rioting, an Israeli girl shouted: "This is what the Arabs deserve. Five bombs in one night is too much." Busloads of police finally drove the mob back into the Israeli sector, where they continued to demonstrate into the night...
...Mexico, a violent quake struck at the height of Mexico City's morning rush hour, raining glass from office windows into the streets, rupturing gas and water lines, stalling streetcars, and causing damage in the millions of dollars. At least three people died in the quake, and workers building the city's new subway system deep underground fled for their lives. Though many skyscrapers were badly damaged, the athletics stadium complex for the forthcoming Olympic Games came through unscathed. It was the most severe shock in Mexico City since 1957, when over 30 people were killed...
...Fritz Lang's Fury, twenty-two members of a lynch mob on trial for their lives, presumably cleared by the perjured testimony of their neighbors, are proven guilty by the camera. A newsreel filmed during the height of the mob violence containing the indelible record of their faces is presented in court. The scene is cathartic, as Lang presents the camera per se as an instrument of fate, the omniscient agent of grim truths. It is even more cathartic in its simplicity, for the concept of film-as-evidence recalls the very motives for the genesis of the medium, that...