Word: linearity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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JOSEPH SZIGETI (Mercury). The 74-year-old violinist plays mostly sonatas by four modern masters: Debussy, Ives, Honegger and Webern. The Debussy Sonata in C Minor is competent interpretation, but Szigeti really excels in tenser linear works -the eclectic Ives in his only violin sonata and the neo-Baroque Honegger (Sonata No. 7), with its complex, difficult ornamentation, sound fresh and clear. The record's highlight is four pieces (Opus 7) by Anton Webern, none longer than 72 seconds, in which the stripped-down starkness of modern music and its intolerance of repetition or romance are emphasized by Szigeti...
...Alto, and flanked by newly planted oak and eucalyptus trees, the low, two-mile-long structure could easily be mistaken for a new link in California's growing network of freeways. Instead of automobiles, however, it will handle streams of speeding electrons. It is Stanford University's linear accelerator, the newest tool in one of the newest and fastest-growing disciplines of science, high-energy physics. When it achieves full power and goes into operation this fall, the largest atom smasher in the world will give man a closer look at the mysterious subatomic world and its host...
Backbone of Stanford's linear accelerator (called SLAC) is a 10,000-ft.-long, 4-in.-diameter copper tube housed in a concrete tunnel and buried 25 ft. underground to protect scientists and any bystanders from its fierce radiation. At one end, an electron beam is generated in much the same manner as the beam inside a home TV picture tube. Injected into a nickel-size hole that runs the length of the copper tube, the beam's electrons are immediately accelerated by 6,000,000-watt microwave pulses generated by 245 klystrons-giant, ultrahigh-frequency radio tubes...
Subatomic World. Though SLAC's 20 BEV output is exceeded by the more familiar synchrotrons-devices that accelerate atomic particles by whirling them in a circular path-linear acceleration has several advantages. The beam is easier to control, more accessible for experimentation and bombards a target with more particles per second -increasing the probability of particle interaction. Even more important, circular accelerators cannot impart energies of more than about ten BEV to electrons which radiate away much of their energy when traveling in a circular path. Synchrotrons and other circular accelerators such as cyclotrons and betatrons are usually used...
Veteran Director Henry Hathaway delivers every shock of the linear plot without striving for subtlety. Among the sweaty stereotypes encountered, Brian Keith rings true as an amiable peddler who teaches young Nevada how to shoot. Keith warns the lad to give up his search for the killers, or "root with them in the garbage." Nevada prefers to root, and finds plenty of raw material. A winsome Kiowa Indian prostitute (Janet Margolin) and a Cajun slattern (Suzanne Pleshette) lend immoral support before he finally corners and cripples the third and last gunman (Karl Maiden) after joining his band of cutthroats. Nevada...