Word: note
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Octet is one of Stravinsky's most austere pieces, but is nevertheless a masterful enquiry into wind dialogue. The work exhibits Stravinsky's polyphonic terseness and lucidity, and particularly his severe economy of expression in which not a single note or beat is gratuitous excess. The Octet is a collection of crystalline inflections reflecting jewel-like through the mists of Strauss' Suite. Stravinsky is the greatest master of the liberating freshness of technical discipline since Bach. His pellucid textures are never subjected to the spoilage of superfluity but rather to an intensely self-conscious merging of the intoxication of original...
...even among those who, like myself, feel that a University is not the proper place for military preparation there were divergences over the answer to the problem. One does not have to be a moral relativist, pace Professor Putnam, in order to want to weigh arguments and take note of the legitimate concerns even of those whose point of view one rejects. For instance, while I find little justification for the present ROTC program, I recognize the right of students to pursue military preparation as one extra-curricular activity among others: and while I recognize the moral fervor of those...
...free against Princeton in 23.7, with teammate Ken Miller third, but the Crimson's Mike Cahalan usually does the 50 in under 23 seconds. Pete Czekanski of Brown netted two second places, in the freestyles at 500 and 1000 yards, but there appear to be no other freestylers of note...
AFTER THE election Richard Nixon tried to mollify his intellectual critics by appointing a few of their spokesmen to sub-Cabinet posts, but last Wednesday night he reaffirmed his fundamental ties with the Quiet Americans who elected him. Nixon's entire Cabinet show--from the patronizing note about "high marks" for Walter Washington, Mayor of the District, to the line about "respecting" Dean Rusk for the "dignified" way he blindly ignored any suggestion that the war might be a mistake--was aimed at TV sets in warm middle-class living rooms...
...intriguing to note that, in his entire adult life, Styron's hero performed only two creative acts; the first was to plan the revolt, the second was to build a flush toilet for whites. The relationship between this Turner and the man who spoke the above words would be interesting to establish...