Word: majority
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...news sources-of the rising cries of dissent from their country's intellectuals. The Voice of America, for example, has broadcast full versions of Physicist Andrei Sakharov's extraordinary outline for an East-West detente (which is critical of both U.S. and Soviet current policy) and Major General Pyotr Grigorenko's recent anti-Kremlin statements...
...There are two major jamming techniques used by the U.S.S.R. One, called ground-wave jamming, employs a local transmitter that blocks a selected frequency with either a garbling distortion signal or by overriding another program with a Soviet program. This technique, however, works well only within a three-mile radius of the transmitter. Sky-wave jamming, the second technique, calls for transmission from a point as far away as the source of the outside signal. This requires expensive tower construction in remote areas and constant monitoring of the ionosphere, off which radio waves are bounced from sender to receiver...
...these were intended to be performed at Christian worship-including a Magnificat and 41 Christmas cantatas (plus six more that make up the famed Christmas oratorio). Even in the secularist atmosphere of the 20th century, his music rings with what Toronto Choral Conductor Elmer Iseler calls a positive, "D-major feeling about life." From the evidence of the 1968 holiday season, more and more listeners are trying to get into the same...
...Radio Symphony Orchestra. In London, Composer Benjamin Britten conducts three cantatas for the BBC from St. Andrew's Church in Holborn. In Manhattan, Violinist and Conductor Alexander Schneider completes a two-concert series of cantatas and concertos at Carnegie Hall. And in New York, as in other major capitals, the coming weeks will see a performance of Bach's undoubted masterpiece, the B-Minor Mass-a work that he began as a tribute to the Catholic King of Poland, but which in its final form did not fit either the Catholic or the Lutheran liturgy. In English-speaking...
Perhaps more significant than such major concerts by well-known artists are the thousands of more modest Bach performances, ranging down to the smallest towns and the merest amateur level. Here Bach is pervasive. Following the pattern set by the present-day chorus at Bach's own St. Thomas Church in Leipzig, church and community choirs throughout the Western world are marking Christmas by singing something of Bach's, even if only a two-minute chorale. And what church organist will let Christmas-or any other week-go by without playing at least one Bach prelude or perhaps...