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...merely (and mercifully) vaporized. The ever-growing sophistication of weapons appalls: a Bomb with the explosive force of Little Boy can now be conveniently carried in a bowling bag and left on a park bench. It is now a fortunate commonplace that nuclear war simply cannot be a rational instrument of international policy...
Szell was an extraordinary pianist, and though he could not play a single orchestral instrument, he knew exactly what each could do, often proving he knew more about it than the players themselves. His beat was sharply defined and unfailing as an atomic clock. He was a scholar with a mania for research and a memory that neatly stored away the data in mental cubbyholes for instant retrieval. Though he cared deeply for paintings and literature and was a gourmet, music was his passion. Everything and everybody, including himself, was to be sacrificed to its perfection. He was fearsome, unforgiving...
...main point, trashing, looting and bombing are not to be done indiscriminately and should for the short-term be suspended: although terrorism can serve on occasion as a thermometer in reading just how radical certain groups of people are, terrorism as a steady tactic is an appropriate instrument in building a movement only when masses of people engage in it or approve of it, and we have not arrived at that point...
...Berkeley, which enabled an electronic needle to enter a chicken's brain and reach its hypothalamus with out killing the chicken. "It worked so well I had chickens laying double eggs, eating their heads off, or not eating at all. They could have created monster chickens with my instrument," Karl says proudly...
...that's it. Todd Rundgren, formerly guitarist of the Nazz, has given the LP production it deserves, and his engineering allows each wellplayed instrument (not to mention the voices) to come through with perfect clarity. If you can find "American Dream...