Word: portions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...particularly ingenious, determined the notes for his Music for Piano by following the pattern of the "imperfections in the paper on which the music was written." Germany's Karlheinz Stockhausen, who is perhaps the most influential of Europe's aleatory composers, instructs performers to play any portion of his music that their eyes first fall on. His Cycle, for one percussionist, has spirally bound pages to make it simpler for the performer to begin or end wherever he wants, play back-to-front, or even turn the score upside down. Pianist David Tudor, leading performer of aleatory scores...
...finally I wish to consider the fine logic that Mr. Nash used to defend the alumni getting half of the tickets. His logic is that they have paid for a major portion of the buildings and athletic facilities so they are entitled to half of the tickets to the games. By his logic we should leave open half of the room space for the alumni as they paid for that, too. I think it's fine to reserve a few tickets for alumni, but only a few. I'm of the old-fashioned belief that the facilities of the University...
...hysteria of the late '40's and early '50's extended to liberals who had never been associated with the Communist Party in the '30's, even to men who were born too late to be part of the decade of treason. Thus the weakest and least sympathetic portion of Arthur M. Schlesinger's Age of Roosevelt is his treatment of the American Left; Schlesinger is too scarred himself, too much involved in the post World War II liberal anguish to see the radicals of his period clearly...
Harvard University belongs both to the alumni and the students. And over half of the 600 available tickets went to students. But the alumni have built the Medical Center, remodeled the freshman dormitories, and constructed a major portion of the athletic facilities--including the hockey rink. They have an equal right to see the Harvard teams play. It seems to me that aside from the lack of communication, there is little cause for griping. Nicholas D. Nash...
There is a brief pause, then the curtains open, revealing a portion of Armageddon's principal street. It is totally deserted and sadly run-down, but in the dazzling sunlight posses a lazy, rather Spanish charm...