Word: mediums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prancing militiamen fired their Czech burp guns into the air, and Jeeps draped with hot-eyed youths careened along the avenues. Communist-country correspondents were hustled off to the shell-pocked beachhead to view the wreckage of invasion-U.S.-made mortars, recoilless rifles, trucks, machine guns, rifles, and medium tanks. A few of the 400 captured survivors were shown on TV, while commentators jabbed jubilant questions at them. The government announced that on May Day, that day sacred to Marxists everywhere, Cuba would celebrate the defeat of the "North American mercenaries" with the greatest parade in history...
Kovacs plans to do three more midget spectaculars to substitute now and then for the Silents, Please program that he, in the idiom of the medium, hosts. The odds are that they will be the only shows on the air whose credits lists will flash the appealing message; SEE THE GIANT CLAMS EAT THE FRIENDLY NATIVES...
...views. In the conversations that followed, the President urged that NATO's European members place a high priority on building up NATO's conventional military forces. The U.S., he said, is willing to provide NATO with nuclear capability, probably in the form of Polaris submarines and medium-range ballistic missiles-but nuclear fire control must remain in U.S. hands. Macmillan was generally agreeable, although he pointed out that a conventional-forces boost would cause Britain considerable money and manpower problems...
Maxfield has extensive musical and electronic background. Unlike the European experimenters in the field, he does not use electronic music as a medium for serial composition but as a more far-reaching attempt to broaden the listening powers of the concert audience. As such I think the best of his works succeed. His compositions remind us that music is, after all, merely sound organized by men in some purposeful fashion, and that its limits are set by its purpose. His belief that music is experience, not communication, helps to destroy the straight-jacket that social forms and traditional compositions have...
...city in India." As a boy, he was a constant visitor to the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, and on a weekend job with a master moldmaker at a ceramics factory he got his first observation of a man's "timing and tactile sense with a difficult medium." When Frank Lloyd Wright blew into town on a commission to build a church, Jenkins met him and grandly announced that he was going to be an artist. "He asked me," Jenkins recalls, "if I had ever thought of agriculture." At 17, Jenkins tried to draw some sage advice from...