Word: pitches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mind: What good are carriers themselves? Unconvinced by a Navy report on "the future role of the aircraft carrier," he ordered a new study. The Navy now has until May 15 to justify its carrier-construction program. Says a McNamara aide: "We want logic and options, not a sales pitch...
...powerful portrayal of Otello's fatal jealousy had just the right measure of Moorish grief to provide motive enough for murder, and agony enough for a whole flight of heroic high notes. His voice sailed easily over the orchestra even when the musicians were at excessively symphonic pitch-the one element of real excitement in an otherwise hushed performance...
...Boston's pitching staff has only one certainty--weakness. Bill Monbouquette (15-13) is a local favorite, but there were many days last year when opponents liked him even more. Earl Wilson (12.8) did pitch a no-hitter, although he allowed far too many hits on numerous other occasions. Gene Conley (15-14), if he can catch the team bus in time, might become a reliable hurler, but then again...
...grammar of Boulez' works is serialization. From the compositions of Schoenberg, Boulez took the technique of serializing notes (technically, "areas of pitch"). There are 12 notes in an octave; to oversimplify, the composer arranges the 12 notes in time, that is, selects a series, and builds an entire composition from this series. The series may be played forward in time, backward in time, upside down in pitch, and upside down and backward. By choosing this series, the composer organizes the votes of the entire composition...
Fine Watches. Last week, in an attempt to soothe Europe's restiveness by giving its Allies greater responsibility for their own security, the U.S. made its most serious pitch yet to share the planning and control of atomic weapons in Europe with Europeans themselves. Before NATO's 15-member Permanent Council in Paris, President Kennedy's special envoy, Livingston Merchant, proposed creation of a multinational nuclear deterrent consisting of a fleet of surface ships equipped with the U.S. Polaris missile. Key provision of the plan is that the ships would be "multi-manned," i.e., their crews would...