Word: preparedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Presently the philosophy Department will investigate me to find out what I have learned in Philosophy 75 these last four months. Intensive preparation for this event leaves me no time to write a column, so I shall turn over this space to the members of the House Un-American Activities...
Summoned to Szombathely Communist headquarters, he was told of Mindszenty's arrest. Now, all priests would have to declare themselves for "democracy," i.e., Communism. Was he prepared to cooperate? "That's a pretty big order," Koczan replied. "I'll have to think it over."
Muzak's piped-in music programs had no spot for a composition in dead silence. But last week, hardy Manhattan concertgoers made a spot for Composer Cage's rhythmic, percussive "sounds & silence" music. At Carnegie Recital Hall for two nights in a row, Pianist Maro Ajemian thudded, clanked...
Crop-haired Composer Cage, who looks like a Huck Finn grown to 36, is trying to compose music that is really "atonal." Says he: "Atonal music was excellent in theory, but there were no atonal instruments to play it." He wanted "sounds" instead of "tones"; he found them in junk...
"Players today are not trained or prepared physically to go an entire game . . . and [thus] never reach the peak of physical condition. They're good passers, better catchers, and good kickers, but they lack stamina." Then he allowed himself a Senecan lament on mid-Century males in general: "It...