Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Says German Conductor Hermann Scherchen: "I enjoy doing what other conductors don't want to do or can't do." Known to U.S. listeners-from his records only-as a master of the classical repertory, he is equally famed in Europe as the tireless proselytizer for modern music, the man who got hearings for Berg, Von Webern, Hindemith, Schoenberg, Milhaud long before their names had seeped into the record catalogues. Last week Conductor Scherchen was out plugging the work of another early comrade in music; in Frankfurt he conducted a series of packed performances of Igor Stravinsky...
...southeastern Brazil last week came a strange tale of Stone Age savages living furtive lives only a few score miles from modern civilization...
Scientist Loureiro believes the Xetás are the most primitive humans surviving in the modern world, is trying to persuade the Brazilian government to seal them off in a jungle preserve before they are pushed to the wall by the advancing frontier. "It would be a crime against science," he says, "to destroy Xetá culture now. The Xetás must be saved intact in their natural jungle surroundings-at least until we can complete our study of them...
When the glacier finally drew back toward Canada (about 23,000 B.C.), the unburdened crust began to recover, and the dimple flattened out. Ohio, Iowa, Michigan and Wisconsin rose out of the Leverett Sea. The broad estuary that led to the Gulf shrank to form the modern Mississippi...
Even after the Mississippi settled into its modern bed, it remained and remains a geological curiosity. For, technically, it runs uphill. In a Department of Commerce publication, the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey reported that the headwaters of the Mississippi are 3,956.17 miles from the center of the earth, while its mouth on the Gulf of Mexico is 3,960.22 miles from the center. As the Mississippi flows from Minnesota to the Gulf, it climbs 4.05 miles farther from the earth's center...