Word: plex
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even the flight's one notable failure -the unexpected early end to Astronaut Richard Gordon's space walk - provided scientists with valuable data that may help prevent similar problems on future missions. It was also a humbling reminder that for all his powerful rockets, com plex capsules and sophisticated electron ics systems, man's frail frame itself is the limiting factor in space exploration...
...prevalent in folk music (for example, the notes sounded by the five black keys on the piano), Kodály's method uses games and pictures to introduce painlessly the basic concepts of musical structure and notation. The result is that thousands of students learn to read com plex scores as easily as a column of figures by the time they reach the eighth grade. Best of all, says Kodály, the children become skillful performers on "a beautiful musical instrument"-the hu man voice. He believes that singing not only provides "the best foundation of musicality...