Word: method
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spawned by Michaels' boyhood watching the Yiddish theater: wise guys who fast-talk on capitalist society's turf and win. In "Reflections of a Wild Kid," Michaels's persona makes it with an ex-girlfriend by removing the woman's present boyfriend, a nerdish college professor. The persona's method: piss out the window of the woman's apartment, hide in the closet and let the police seize the wrong man--the boyfriend--when they come around. Michaels describes this as "genius...
...produced his first compositions in the twelve-tone idiom. An intellectual creation of the highest order, this system is a logical outgrowth of 19th century chromaticism and turn-of-the-century atonality, which both moved toward giving an equal significance to each of the twelve tones. It is a method which has dominated the musical life of this century, eventually exercising a hold even on Igor Stravinsky, the man who had once seemed the great opponent of this serial technique...
This drive to fill the musical space also lies behind the 12-tone method. When eleven of the twelve tones have been heard, Rosen argues, the one missing note creates a tension much like a dissonance. When that note is supplied, the listener experiences a sense of arrival. Unfortunately, this elegant theoretical construction goes largely unrecognized in performance-only the most extraordinary listener will know which notes have been sounded and which remain unheard. However, like the 12-tone system itself, Rosen's theory reveals intentions which, even if inaudible, suffuse the composition like a magical incantation, giving intellectual...
...second part of the campaign seeks to democratize the economy by eliminating the private ownership of large corporations. Although this is economic democracy in the more orthodox socialist sense, the method proposed is rather innovative. The same L.O. convention which called for the abolition of Paragraph 32 also commissioned L.O. economist Rudolf Meidner to do a study of "wage-earners' funds" for the control of corporate profits. Originally, the intent was to get at the profits left behind by L.O.'s solidarity wage policy in high wage firms. What has emerged, however, is a plan for the gradual socialization...
...shot, "the sons of bitches") he's a working class rebel. George Meany and Leonard Woodcock seem to like argument and accomodation with presidents and corporate bosses. Jimmy preferred to pound people who got in his way--and men who drive trucks and work in mills like Jimmy's method better...