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...rank of career ambassador. He held three ambassadorships (Laos, Syria, Morocco) in the Eisenhower Administration, then became deputy to Adlai Stevenson and Arthur Goldberg at the United Nations. In 1966, he retired to join the Council on Foreign Relations. In a 1964 book, The Age of Triumph and Frustration: Modern Dialogues, one of Yost's imaginary speakers sums up a diplomat's view of Realpolitik: "The hopes of international peace depend upon a firm disregard of the rights and wrongs of disputes, on which there can almost never be agreement, and on a purpose either to settle them...
Sonar Search. The startling observation was made by a University of Birmingham team armed with a modern monster detector: sophisticated sonar equipment. Setting up operations on a Loch Ness pier, the scientists projected a beam of high-frequency sound waves through the water. During one 13-min. period, the sonar echoes defined large moving objects that Birmingham Electrical Engineer D. Gordon Tucker says were "clearly" made by animals...
...accompaniment of a jazz rhythm section, singing the themes in wordless scat syllables (ba ba da ba dee). As for jazz itself, its linear bass line, contrapuntal melodies and free improvisation all suggest parallels to Bach-parallels that have been explored notably by such performers as the Modern Jazz Quartet, Dave Brubeck and Lalo Schifrin...
...true that Bach's chorales are still widely used at Protestant services-and in the ecumenical climate of modern Roman Catholicism, no organist would hesitate to use his setting of Luther's A Mighty Fortress as a prelude to Sunday Mass. Still, the mode of Christian worship is not that of Bach's time, and the impact of his compositions, whether secular or sacred, stems largely from a general feeling of transcendence in the music. "He will give Christianity to Christians, Judaism to Jews, even Communism to Communists," says Karl Richter, conductor of the Munich Bach Choir...
...beginning of the modern outlook came in 1905, with the publication of Albert Schweitzer's two-volume musicological study J. S. Bach. Besides illuminating the context of Bach's works and propounding a more scrupulous performing style, Schweitzer showed that many seeming peculiarities in Bach came from his "pictorial" method of wedding music to text: a wiggling melody when a line refers to a Biblical serpent, an upward line when mists rise...