Word: organically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...market for a $28,500 organ, then go no further than Harvard Yard...
...Memorial Church organ, complete with four keyboards, 102 stops, and 7590 pipes, is up for sale...
Shadowy World. What makes Barry distinctive is his ability to project the mood of a film-"a certain smell that unifies," as he says-with offbeat instrumentation that titillates without distracting. Against a backdrop of gently swelling strings, he punctuates the action with a rippling organ (young love), a nervous twitter from a marimba (trouble in the streets), or perhaps the distant, breathy wailing of a girl's voice (ecstasy). One of his favorite instruments is the Hungarian cimbalom, which looks like the innards of a piano and sounds like an oversexed harpsichord. Rather than treat each scene with...
...There were 37 million amateur musicians in the U.S. last year, up from 19 million in 1950. Mostly they played the piano (22.3 million), the guitar (7,500,000) and the organ (3,600,000). The ukulele and the accordion, fortunately, lost ground. In 1950 one of every 7.8 Americans played a musical instrument; today the ratio is one of every 4.8, making self-made music second only to reading as the nation's most popular leisure-time activity...
...Gynecologist Marion H. Sims suggested in 1888, says Dr. Masters, the vagina seems to be a functioning as well as a functional organ. In some cases, at least, its biochemical activity may completely defeat nature's purpose. In 39 patients, Dr. Masters has found a vaginal secretion that was absolutely lethal for spermatozoa; three more patients had an equally deadly cervical secretion. The chemical nature of these substances is not yet known, but since some of them kill all accessible sperm within ten seconds, Dr. Masters says, "research in this direction is important both from a conceptive...