Word: ladened
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DOORS (Elektra), a new group from Los Angeles, tend to keep the decibels down and spread the shivers with a shuffling beat, a spooky kind of bluesy undercurrent and free, Freud-laden verse. The End, for example, which lasts eleven minutes, spells out the Oedipus legend: "Father, I want to kill you. Mother, I want to. . ." Shrieks ensue...
Subtleties of Rhythm. After a prize-laden graduation from the Paris Conservatory, where he studied composition with Paul Dukas, the 22-year-old Messiaen won the coveted organist's job at La Trinite church in Paris, and later a teaching post at the conservatory. Today, he still gives composition classes and plays for weekly Mass, occasionally enlivening a service with a hair-raising, dissonant improvisation on the organ. In his spare time, he labors at a scholarly tome on the subtleties of rhythm, which he regards as "the primordial, perhaps the essential, part of music...
...sophomore-laden second varsity squad lost to the Richmond clubs and to Crimson, Davidson, and Presbyterian...
...detail as U.S. and South Vietnamese officials met on Nimitz Hill, the U.S. naval headquarters overlooking the Philippine Sea. Also in clear view from the spacious verandas on the Hill was a tangible reminder of the larger stakes-and risks-in the Viet Nam war: the Soviet trawler Gidrofon, laden with electronic snooping gear, lying just beyond the three-mile limit in order to monitor U.S. B-52 flights to Viet Nam and track the six Polaris subs based at Guam...
Even then, Douglas was in a downdraft. Part of the trouble was that strong-willed Donald Wills Douglas Sr., now 74, had waited too long to move into commercial jet transports; the DC-8 lagged a year behind Boeing's profit-laden 707?and Douglas has yet to break even on the venture. After Donald Jr., now 49, took over the presidency, the company grossly underestimated both the demand and costs for its 90-plus passenger, twin-jet DC-9. Labor and parts shortages snarled production lines, and as a result Douglas lost at least $600,000 on each...