Word: note
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...bent, politician by inclination, and intellectual gadfly by design. He stirred a furor that has not yet subsided with a 1965 report on the disintegration of the Negro family. When he turned 40 last March, his Cambridge staff placed an array of hats on his desk with the note: "To the only man we know who could wear them all so well...
Although he is still under attack from some civil rights leaders for his analysis of the weakness of the Negro family, Daniel Patrick Moynihan says: "I have never gotten a nasty letter from a Negro." Last week, Moynihan received an unsigned note, written in what seems to be a woman's hand and postmarked Newark. This one was not nasty, either, but it is hard to forget...
First Confrontation. Last week's riots began on a more ominous note than the first round of riots in May, which grew out of local labor disputes. The bell for Round 2 sounded at the border between Hong Kong and its overpowering neighbor, Communist China. Across the white demarcation line that splits the main street of the small fishing village of Shataukok into Chinese and British halves stormed 300 or more Communist demonstrators. Chanting Mao slogans and waving copies of the Little Red Book of his sayings, they began pelting the local police station with stones...
This week the publication of a revised and expanded version of his 1956 book, The Listener's Musical Companion, shows that Haggin, at 66, is as snappish as ever.* "Accepted opinion finds greatness in every note set down on paper by a great composer like Bach or Mozart," he writes. "I hear in some works dull products of a routine exercise of expert craftsmanship. Accepted opinion holds some symphonies and concertos of Brahms to be works of tremendous profundity; I hear in them only the pretension to profundity." Tchaikovsky, Berlioz and Mussorgsky rank higher with Haggin than with most...
...Pianist Vladimir Horowitz's "unvarying, mannered manipulation of melodic phrase [with] infinite gradations of tone is his one way of operating with every composer." On the other hand, Pianist Van Cliburn, who has taken some critical lumps in recent years, displays "disciplined mastery" and an "unfailing sense for note-to-note continuity of tone, tension and outline...