Word: mass
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Physicist Libby, who is planning to retire from the AEC in June after 4½ years of service, noted a new theory, put forward by Physicist E. A. Martell of the Air Force's Cambridge, Mass. research center, that radioactive debris from nuclear explosions near the poles drifts down to the earth much faster than fallout from explosions near the equator. If the theory is correct, strontium 90 and other harmful isotopes from Soviet tests in October will sprinkle the earth heavily during the next several months...
...Schoenberg's. And so a Webern score is extremely economical with notes: most of the pieces are short (some last only a few seconds); virtually every work is full of silence; the sounds heard are frequently very soft and are clearly the result of delicate calculation. There are few mass effects--rather, the attention is concentrated upon a succession of single tones. There is formal economy, too: the care Webern spent in organizing his structures finally resulted in pieces in which every note is closely related to a small amount of material--perhaps only a few notes--presented...
This year's Hasty Pudding show is a mass of incongruities: the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, thinly disguised, hob-nob with a Marxist chambermaid; an Irish plumber appears in the midst of the expatriate rich on the isle of Elba; a sexy French singer takes a copy of Dr. Zhivago into the shower with her. Yet somehow all these strained touches combine to make an evening...
...Marcello: Introduction, Aria and Presto (A); Haydn: Quartet in B minor, Op. 64, #2 (Quinten) (W); Liszt: Hamlet (L.); Prokoviev: Sonata #4 in C minor for piano (A); Handel: Concerto Grosso, Op. 6 #9 (C); Mozart: Coronation Mass...
...Schutz: Symphoniae Sacrae-2-Bach; Gabrieli: Canzonas for Brass Choirs; MacDowell: Concerto #2 for Piano; Faure: Sonata #1 in A for Violin; Mozart: Mass in C; Bartok: Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion; Brahms: Symphony...