Word: precisionism
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An estimated 150,000 people in the U.S. who are not truly blind have to be treated as if they were, because they have so little useful vision that ordinary spectacles yield them only a faint, blurred image. This week, Columbia University's inventive optometrist, Dr. William Feinbloom, announced...
"This measurement method," he said, "Is a serve test of the actual structure of the nucleus. Its extreme precision allow us to test nuclear theory and to do it quite accurately."
The most popular program was performed by eleven separate choruses (totaling some 700 young singers), who followed each other on & off the Carnegie Music Hall stage with military precision, and sang eleven brief world premieres. Hardest-working musician at the festival was Conductor William Steinberg, who spent as many as...
Of the four excellent soloists, tenor Oscar Henry'52 stood out. His magnificent voice is even stronger and truer than last year. The chorus, as always, was a marvel of precision and balance.
Dohnayi's Screnade in C, for violin, viola, and cello, is a delightfully original work, full of truth and good humor. The third movement, with its nonsensical chattering between violin and viola punctuated by the lugubrious comments of the cello, gently satirizes the typical Nineteenth Century but is at the...