Word: meaningfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Squeezed Syllables. Sinfonia, a 28-minute work for full orchestra and eight "amplified" singers, is pure surrealism, voiced in sound. The words of its text are employed as much for their acoustic qualities as for their semantic meaning. The result is a kind of anti-opera in which verbal and...
The fact that Hatchett had been fired as a substitute teacher in the New York City schools for taking his sixth-grade class to a Black Power rally in memory of Malcolm X did not unduly alarm N.Y.U. It considered Hatchett's writings on Afro-American culture and religion...
Sorel, now 39, is a Cooper Union alumnus who got out of school searching more for money than for meaning. This was so, he recalls, because he had been raised on "the cotton candy of the Eisenhower years." His attitude toward art was "What's in it for me...
True Profession. Not quite. Hesse's parents were Protestant missionaries, and so it was assumed that he would be a minister. At 14, however, the stultifying confinement of school sent him fleeing from the Maulbronn seminary in Swabia. Unable to find a meaning in his life, unhappy with a...
Bruce doesn't feel that rock will change greatly. "Rock depends very much on certain cliches. They're the essential vocabulary of rock. When-ever you add something new like, for instance, electronic sounds, you always risk destroying it." He is also anxious about whether he will be recognized apart...