Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crop-haired Composer Cage, who looks like a Huck Finn grown to 36, is trying to compose music that is really "atonal." Says he: "Atonal music was excellent in theory, but there were no atonal instruments to play it." He wanted "sounds" instead of "tones"; he found them in junk yards, bone yards and hardware stores-brake drums, pipe lengths, asses' jaws-and in his prepared pianos...
Does he use measurements to paint by? "Oh, no. I use this eye mostly [pointing to his left one] and I hold my head in one spot, like a camera, instead of ducking it around. That may sound a bit rigid, but I think craftsmanship should be uppermost. You build the picture up, very faithfully. The less art you try to put into it the better...
...says Pope, "knew there were some things going on in the world of business, finance and industry which were hard to square with the New Testament." When son Listen came home from Duke University in 1929 with a Phi Beta Kappa key and an urge to study Christian sociology instead of investment banking, his father listened sympathetically...
...wartime days, the U.T. used to make some effort to cater to the tastes of college audiences, particularly in its Wednesday Review Day programs. Now Review Day itself has been all but abandoned, and its few recent appearances have mostly featured faded M-G-M moronities like "Cass Timberlane" instead of such films as "The Informer...
Thesis writing took a new twist at Princeton yesterday when an inventive senior handed in five miles of wire instead of the more conventional typewritten essay...