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...technique for accurate phrasing. The effect is startling. When the initial awe of hearing the new sound is overcome, more and more the conviction sinks in that this is what the baroque sound must have been like. Harnoncourt refuses to cut the length of the suites: he does not omit a single repeated section. This is an important consideration in the overtures, the first and largest movement of each suite. Standard procedure is to play the opening slow section twice, but then to play the fugato passage and closing lento only once, omitting the final repeat. By observing the repeat...

Author: By Kenneth Hoffman, | Title: Bach: The Four Orchestral Suites | 1/14/1972 | See Source »

...week of Leap Year day, the calendar has tips on feminist wedding ceremonies-omit the word "obey" from the traditional vows, write your own marriage ritual: "We promise to love, cherish, and groove on each other and all living things. We promise to smash the alienated family unit . . . We promise these things until choice do us part." For the second week in April, there is a self-defense karate lesson: "To use this right-foot snap-kick . . ." Nature hints: "Some fish reverse more than just sex roles-they actually consume the other gender." Nonviolent put-off for a masher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Feminist Mystique | 11/8/1971 | See Source »

...that the view of Peabody Terrace, The Riverside Press, and The Carter's Ink factory was "more interesting." It was also Carlhain's decision to put students' closets outside of their rooms, to make the bedrooms especially dark-"I see a student's room as a retreat"-and to omit living rooms from most tower suites...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Slouching Toward Alphaville | 6/17/1971 | See Source »

Though Dement is quick to urge pill poppers to omit the barbiturates, he does not advocate sudden withdrawal, which can cause severe anxiety or even convulsions. Instead, he urges a slow weaning. One patient who followed this advice reported significant gains in his battle with insomnia. When he took as many as five barbiturates a day, he slept only 5 hrs. 40 min. a night. After abandoning the pills entirely, he began snoring soundly for seven hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Anti-Sleeping Pills | 1/25/1971 | See Source »

...that the view of Peabody Terrace, The Riverside Press, and The Carter's Ink factory was "more interesting." It was also Carlhain's decision to put students' closets outside of their rooms, to make the bedrooms especially dark-"I see a student's room as a retreat"-and to omit living rooms from most tower suites...

Author: By Martin H. Kaplan, | Title: Mather Slouching Toward Alphaville | 10/23/1970 | See Source »

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