Word: mono
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...didn't know what we could do realistically," Kaplan said. "Students didn't perceive of the HUC as being a student government. The parietals obsession had made us mono-focused. The elections were indirect through the House Committees. And people at Harvard inherently don't like to feel that others represent them--they feel that they are capable of representing themselves. Besides, there was no reason for anyone to do anything with...
...works are little more than postgraduate examples of those art school exercises in which students are called upon to copy older paintings or even to try to improve on them. A minority illuminate their topic unforgettably. By penciling a Dali-like goatee and mustache onto a reproduction of the Mono Lisa, Marcel Duchamp made it difficult for anyone looking at the lady thereafter to overlook either the pompous reverence with which she is surrounded or Leonardo's decidedly ambivalent attitude toward women. More recently, Miro, Magritte, Johns, Rauschenberg, Lichtenstein, Arman, Bruce Nauman and Walter de Maria have in various...
...YORK PHILHARMONIC (Odyssey); RAFAEL KUBELIK AND THE BAVARIAN RADIO SYMPHONY (Deutsche Grammophon); DAVID OISTRAKH AND THE MOSCOW PHILHARMONIC (Angel/Melodiya). This seraphic, fairy-tale score is the best introduction to Mahler. Bruno Walter's 23-year-old classic recording is rechanneled for stereo, with less bass than the original mono, but more polish in the middles and highs. Those who want a modern recording will like Kubelik's lithe and luminous version. The interpretation by Violinist-turned-Conductor Oistrakh is, unfortunately, unsympathetic and at times eccentric...
Thus LP collectors are faced with the imminent disappearance of many fine mono recordings made between 1948, when the LP was first introduced, and 1958, when stereo was born. Some items may appear again on reissue lines, such as Angel's Great Recordings of the Century. But most will not. Nor does electronic rechanneling of the old recording into stereo solve the problem. "To put it bluntly, electronic stereo is presently nothing but sonic vandalism, a fact recognized and even privately admitted by the record companies themselves," says High Fidelity magazine.* Thus wise collectors are buying up the choice...
Rome's Joe Colombo carries out the same principle by furnishing his interior with blocklike boxes that can be interchanged and attached to each other by magnets. Each box in Colombo's "mono-home" is multipurpose, can serve to house a TV or to store kitchen utensils. "A bachelor buys some of these pieces for his home," Colombo explains. "He marries and he adds more pieces; he has children and he adds more pieces-it goes upward, sideways, inward and downward." An unexpected guest arrives? Easy, says he: "You just pull out an extra bed, assemble...