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Composers Balz Trümpy and York Holler, whose works followed, were in roughly the position of the actors in that children's play. Trümpy's Wellen-spiele made the first use ever of a digital sound processor. This is a new device that modifies sound as it is performed by an ensemble by the use of mikes onstage. Much of the composition was too bland to show off the new processor, but its climax was a long, breaking roll of waves accompanied by pulsing gongs. The Holler Arcus used the more conventional method of taping...
...other automotive routes to the statusphere, other limited-edition models that will guarantee gawps and gawks and parking space wherever one goes. They are not like the Mercedes and the Rolls-Royce, which are (relatively) mass manufactured and as common in some moneyed turf as hogs in a holler. Whereas most toys for the rich look as if they had all come from the same department store, a replicated Duesenberg SSJ or Auburn 866 boat-tail speedster is not something your dentist or psychiatrist is apt to call...
...move or smoke-why do you think we chew tobacco? If it's daytime you hide behind a tree or a log. Sure enough, before long, you'll hear the criminal or see him. It's just like any hunting." Adds Daugherty: "We know where every holler goes, and we know the ways that animals or men react in the woods. A tired man turns downhill, so you start looking for downhill tracks...
...Eliot defense, which has allowed only 16 points against it all year, pushed hard to contain the Yale offense, and their smash-and-holler tactics stymied the opposition's ground game...
...increase. After he was elected, the legislature voted in favor of a tax hike, and House Speaker Albert Brewer visited the Governor to commiserate "because you'll have to veto it." Brewer later recalled: "He looked at me in silence for a moment and said, 'I'll just holler nigger and everybody will forget it.' And he did. And they did." In his 1963 inaugural speech, Wallace proclaimed: "Segregation now?segregation tomorrow?segregation forever." But on a November weekend ten years later, Wallace crowned a black homecoming queen at the University of Alabama, then told a black mayors' meeting...