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This week, Manhattan concertgoers heard his latest oddity-a piece called Shatokh. Against a low rich moan of the violin, the piano sounded like one of the ancient Armenian zither-and lute-like instruments (kanoon, saz) that Hovhaness likes to imitate: there was little else but pluck-like repeated notes, connected occasionally by eddying swirls of sound. Suddenly, when it was about to verge on monotony, Shatakh just ended...
...Have Your Bath." A moan went up from the crowd. By the thousands, his followers began to file by the dead man, who was draped in white khadi (homespun cotton) and sprinkled with rose petals. The crush became so great that the body was finally put on a tilted slab on an outside balcony, and bathed in floodlights so that all might see. At the head burned five lamp wicks representing the five elements-air, light, water, earth and fire...
...hunt was on. The chill moan of the prison sirens yanked Roy Best out of his cosy retreat. Back in his office, he telephoned for help, rounded up city and state police, a National Guard company, and volunteers...
Charles Chaplin Jr., 22, booked in Los Angeles on suspicion of intoxication for a little fender-nicking incident, gave a low, morning-after moan: "I feel very badly . . , because of what my Dad will...
Despite a low moan now & then about a possible depression, U.S. business is feeling no pain. One of the best long-range indicators of what businessmen expect is their spending for new plants and equipment. In its current monthly bulletin, the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia states that such expenditures are now running at a record annual rate of $16 billion, more than three times the annual average for the two decades preceding...