Word: intervallic
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> Wolves sing. > There are lupine vocal registers-soprano wolves, contralto wolves, tenor wolves, even a bass wolf or two. > Wolves have a characteristic call in which the interval of the major sixth (C to A) predominates.
Now, only some 35,000 years after the birth of modern man?a brief interval on the evolutionary time scale?the arrow is pointing in a dramatic new direction. Not only has man begun to unlock the most fundamental life processes, but he may soon be able to manipulate and...
Political Alchemy. In 1968, then Harvard Professor Henry Kissinger wrote that the best the U.S. could expect after withdrawing its troops would be for Saigon to survive for "a decent interval"-two or three years. Since then, South Viet Nam's military machine has grown to brobdingnagian proportions. Saigon...
WHEN I got to Mulligan's Junction, Ga., on my trip South, I wanted to go on to Pelican Swamp, and I asked the old Yankee conductor of the Lightning Express when it would leave for that point. "Wal," he replied, chimerically, "if Bill gets the wood sawed and split...
"It's a matter now that we have this new thing, these electric sounds, it's a question of how can you use them in such a way that they're music rather than racket? Because the point is fine. I've been using the feedback stuff instead of playing...