Word: marching
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After debriefing the astronauts and studying telemetry from Apollo 9, NASA will announce on March 24 whether it will maintain the current schedule (Apollo 10 in mid-May, the Apollo 11 moon-landing mission in mid-July) or move directly to a landing mission in June. Whatever the decision, there is now more confidence than ever that U.S. astronauts will be walking on the surface of the moon this summer...
...refrigerators and TV sets won't solve your problems-only the revolution can give you the strength and human dignity denied the working class so long." In the village of Vignola, the audience was so aroused by this argument that a group called for flags and guns to march on the nearby factory and take it over. The march did not take place. As one worker says to another in Grand Pantomime: "We can't kill the boss. After all, he has a mamma like us all and he pays for our local football team...
Despite its Pythagorean formality, however, Xenakis' music bears his ingeniously personal mark. For instance, during a composition called Eonta (which means "beings" in Greek) three trombonists and two trumpeters march to and fro about the stage while a pianist flays wildly away at the keyboard. In Terretektorh (one of the coined Greek words that he uses to title his pieces), the musicians blow whistles, rattle maracas, clap wooden blocks and crack small whips besides coaxing unearthly sounds from conventional instruments. As in Terretektorh, the entire orchestra will be scattered throughout the audience during the world premi...
...sorry that I must note a few corrections to your account of my recent meeting with graduate students in Comparative Literature (March 18). Nothing so tempestuous occurred as what your article has attempted to stir up, and I believe that most of those present would agree with me that it was "a very constructive occasion." Since it was to be a kind of family occasion, involving some frank shop-talk and possible personalities, your reporter was asked to leave. I now regret that we did not ask him to stay, because I feel sure that first-hand observation would have...
...March 29, a large number will trot in from Lexington to Cambridge, a nine-mile distance. This is a vital tuneup for the Marathon for many, but one participant claimed that it was "strictly minor league...