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Trois Visages de Liege (1961), ending the first half, was played on Ampex and Sony tape decks, McIntosh amplifiers, and six large speaker enclosures along the walls. The first Visage, "L'air et l'eau," was dull, using everyday electronic sounds to no new effects. It sounded distressingly like the background music to either an aspirin commercial or a spaceranger episode. "Voix de la Ville" and "Forges," on the other hand, were fresh, and full of exciting ideas, unusual sounds creating a wide range of mental images: massive steam engines running wild, fiery boilers bursting at the seams; or perhaps...
...pounds for 95 cents. A-spare-a-grass here," yells a short, bouncy vendor with a meaty face and big squashy hands. Rafts of watermelons. Buckets of native cukes--three for just 25 cents. "Hava pruna," shouts a jolly grandmother, holy in her dominion. A tough kid says his McIntosh apples are good, very good. Heads of lettuce topple over onto the peppers. Parsnips look like washed out carrots, and the bananas are disturbingly yellow...
...THORN TREES by John McIntosh. 183 pages. Harcourt, Brace & World...
VanLobensels and McIntosh feel that if the rules were made "visible" and some "clear form" of judicial review for student violators were set up, the non-students who are former students -- like Savio and Mrs. Lieberman -- might actually be pacified. The administration, too, which has refused to readmit both these notorious "non-students" might come to see that "the situation is no longer explosive. They'd see that it would be in their interest to readmit both of them," McIntosh says...
...becoming apparent to other observers that what McIntosh and vanLobensels talk about so lovingly is never going to come about. Administration spokesmen say that the university is extending itself as far as possible when it offers the 10-member joint commission. No one in the state of California is really willing to grant the students the autonomy they want...