Word: note
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pilot announced: 'We are now at the Cambodian border.' Two minutes later we had located the trail. It snaked out of Cambodia, clear as a road map. The area was flat and only spottily foliaged. I could see the Se Kong River in the background. A note I made at the time says: 'No question about it. From the river going east [toward South Viet Nam] is a large road. The trail winds and turns, the trees growing thicker in a narrow valley.' Sometimes we lost sight of the road. But it seems safe to conclude...
...student who dropped a note: "Ours is a single-note instrument, so we have to play well one note at a time; every note must be good. You must imagine that you are in an auction, and every single note has to be so good that you can sell it without any argument. Every note must have quality, as if all by itself it is some kind of melody...
...dimness of the University of Chicago's Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, pretty Coed Susan Alberi, 18, passed her fellow worshiper a note. Would he please kneel in prayer? With a smile, he complied. "He thought I was trying to pick him up," Susan recounts gleefully. "Instead I choked him with my rosary...
...view of himself, and requires students to explain such notions as velocity and inertia in their own words, the relevance hits them. The course, recalls Amherst Graduate Evan Snyder, "was absolute hell?but one of the most valuable intellectual experiences I've been through." One student slipped a note under Arons' door, reading "I can't help wondering if physics is really as interesting as you make it seem...
...last week, he plays again. His Scriabin is more difficult and more triumphant, his Chopin alternately stormy and suave; it is more introspective than Rubinstein's, probes for a cerebral content that surprises and electrifies. His eyes are glued to the keyboard, his fingers carefully searching out each note as if they are switches that illuminate sound. But the greatest success is not in the relationship of Horowitz to his audience or Horowitz to his critics, but of Horowitz to Horowitz. He signs a five-year contract with Columbia Records. On May 8 he will play again before...