Word: jacob
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nine movements of Le Marteau, Boulez presents three poems through the voice (Bethany Beardslee) and comments on them instrumentally. In each of the nine movements, Boulez uses a different ensemble chosen from the voice, alto flute (Harvey Sollberger), viola (Jacob Glick), guitar (Stanley Silverman), vibraphone (Paul Price), xylophone (Raymond Desroches), and percussion (Max Neuhaus). The texture of the sound is always clear, sometimes shimmering, sometimes punctiform, and always changing. With the flexibility of tempi and timbre goes an obvious fixity of notes and rhythmic patterns; certain intervals and rhythmic groupings recur constantly. And with all this planning, with all this...
Miss Levertov's most recent volume of poetry, The Jacob's Ladder, shows a preoccupation with the problem of communication. Not only is this her major theme, but she also sees communication as her primary duty as a poet. Good poetry, she says in "A Common Ground...
...magnum opus of The Jacob's Ladder is "During the Eichman Trial." Its 165 lines view the tragedy of Eichman's life from several perspectives, all of which lead the reader ineluctably to the same realization...
...Ambassador to the United Nations, New York's Senator Jacob Javits...
...audience that the Democratic Party had won its majority position "because it is a lively party . . . because it gives the idea of change and progress," and he urged the Republicans to strive for a consensus "upon the fundamental purposes and interests of our party." New York's Senator Jacob Javits called upon the G.O.P. to work out "positive programs" and "long-range plans" to put before the nation. Oregon's Governor Mark Hatfield declared that the Republican Party "must offer a youthful, new-idea approach . . . must look to the future, with emphasis on ingenuity...