Word: papered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hates. Casa Ricordi was founded in Milan in 1808 by a violinist who, so the legend goes, noticed that the workers around La Scala wore paper hats made of discarded musical scores. Giovanni Ricordi investigated, found that valuable scores and orchestra parts were stacked high in La Scala's cellar. He began to buy up some of the scores, set himself up as a copyist, got a contract stipulating that all the scores he produced would remain his property after a performance. In an age without copyrights or royalties on performances, he funneled some of his earnings back...
Composer George Rochberg, 40, has a distaste for "the terribly logical ways of classical music" and a yen for the rockier paths of atonality. Composer Norman Dello Joio, 46, is an unabashed romantic with a lucidly lyrical touch and scorn for the "black-noted paper" school of composers, who "feel sorry for themselves because they are misunderstood." Last week Composers Rochberg and Dello Joio each unveiled new works...
...wheedling is not easy. Every set of outward-bound scholars wants free cameras, sleeping bags, Aqua-Lungs and cars. One persuasive undergraduate was able to separate two Land Rovers some years ago from the firm that makes the rugged, cross-country cars, but lesser gifts are more common. Toilet paper, for some reason, is showered on expeditions, and not long ago a Cambridge expedition received several cases of highly negotiable whisky...
About seven years ago Massachusetts Institute of Technology developed machine tools with small mechanical brains that take their orders from punched paper tapes. Needing no human help, they eliminated the jobs of many human operators, but as compensation, they created jobs for mathematicians to put their instructions in the number language that their brains understand. Last week M.I.T. demonstrated a second step: it had developed a gimmick to dump the mathematicians...
...Democratic evening Post-Dispatch, the Republican Globe managed to gain some ground (the Globe's circulation of 332,823 is up 40,000 from 1955; the Post's 380,495 is down 7,000), but it never could spin into the solid black. Last week, while his paper was shut down by an American Newspaper Guild strike, Sam Newhouse made an unusual deal with the rival P-D that should strengthen the pocketbooks of both papers...