Word: note
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Appalled Reaction. The purpose of Palach's self-immolation was contained in a note found in his overcoat pocket. To rescue Czechoslovakia from the "edge of hopelessness," he had written, a group of volunteers had decided to burn themselves, one by one, as a protest. Palach made two demands of the government: an end to censorship and the prohibition of the Soviets' occupation newspaper, Zprávy. Considering the finality of his act, they were remarkably modest requests. The note was signed, "Torch...
...else do it." His companions in the protest death pact apparently thought better of their vow-or at least about the method. In Prague, a pretty 18-year-old coed named Blanka Nachazelova died with her head in a gas oven. She left behind a note saying that she should have been Torch No. 2 but had chosen to use gas out of fear of the pain. The Czechoslovak Interior Ministry insisted that she had been forced to kill herself by unspecified other parties...
...Viet Nam war? "I am the most hopeful man you have ever known in your life," he told newsmen. Lodge, as the first formal session quickly demonstrated, will probably need all the optimism he can muster in the months ahead. While the meeting began on a cool and correct note, it quickly became apparent that the Communists would be just as tough and unyielding as the most pessimistic predictions had envisaged...
...throat. But of course, said the impresario-and sotto voce told his assistant to leave it on. All through the first two acts, Tucker's anger mounted. Finally, just before the third act he announced: "Unless the air conditioning is turned off, I do not sing a note!" Someone mentioned that the audience might leave. "Let them!" Tucker roared. "They must accommodate to me, not me to them. The trouble with this business," he said solemnly as the air conditioning was shut down, "is that it is filled with egotistical maniacs...
...arrow to give the page and holds up one or more fingers to indicate the event he wants played. To Brown, a work like Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is "closed form," meaning that no options to choose materials are given to the conductor. In "open-form" music, every note is precomposed (and rehearsed) and determined, yet the piece at hand can never sound the same way twice. "What I am actually doing when conducting," says Brown, "is creating a piece in the moment of performing it. I can feel it happening under my hands...