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Fred and Yvonne Skinner live in an attractive, modern Cambridge house complete with swimming pool, a stereo system, a grand piano, a clavichord and, in the basement study, a small organ. In a sense, Skinner's own life-style is highly controlled and conditioned. His study contains a special clock that "runs when I'm really thinking. I keep a cumulative record of serious time at my desk. The clock starts when I turn on the desk light, and whenever it passes twelve hours, I plot a point on a curve. I can see what my average rate of writing...
...tumultuous years in the public eye as a labor official, little is really known about Meany the man. In private, Meany is more expansive. He paints landscapes and abstracts in oils, and signs them "G.M." When in the mood, he sits down at the organ, removes his cigar, and belts out Irish ballads in an acceptable baritone...
...just that. A regulator unit connected to the heart muscle by wires kept the external pump in phase with the internal organ. As the heart's left ventricle, or major pumping chamber, contracted to force blood through the aorta, the external pump sucked air out of the outer tube, creating negative pressure that helped pull the blood out of the ventricle. Then, as the ventricle relaxed, the pump forced air back into the outer tube, increasing the pressure on the inner passage and forcing the blood through the aorta to the body...
...somebody is trying to organize things. A committee of the Council of Europe, meeting in Strasbourg, has just recommended to its 17 member nations that the world's musicians get in tune with each other by adopting the international pitch standard. This is obviously not the council's most momentous problem, but if harmony is finally achieved, it may put an end to discordant, bitonal performances of complex works like Richard Strauss's Thus Spake Zarathustra. When the Vienna Philharmonic played the Strauss tone poem in London a few years ago, the orchestra built...
...that their parts have been transposed right out of the realm of possibility. Piano manufacturers would have fewer problems with shattered warranties. "On a grand piano, the pull on all strings creates a force of about 20 tons," says Dr. Daniel W. Martin, chief engineer of the Baldwin Piano & Organ Co. "Raising the pitch ten cycles adds another ton of pull. It could crack the metal frame or snap the strings...