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...combined chorale of Cambridge City Councilors, local businessmen (including Tommy), firemen, and professors emeritus will perform the "extended play" version of the smash-movie-theme song/rock-ballad "You Light Up My Life" on the steps of Widener Library on the Harvard University campus on any given Sunday. (Ha.) (A: The Pythagorean theorem; upper right molars (part A), prophylaxis (part...
...Colony. That leaves the people who look inward, the mystics. Thompson approves of the effort of Yogi Gopi Krishna and German Physicist C.F. von Weizsäcker to meld Eastern wisdom with Western science. Such a union represents Thompson's ideal of Pythagorean science, involving "cosmological thinkers for whom art, religion and science are different idioms of the single language of contemplation"-in short, what Thompson regards as a means to the new planetary culture...
...again moving into a very hierarchical, mystical, Pythagorean, antidemocratic system. Half of me is in favor of that. The other half does not want to go through the Middle Ages all over again. Will it be good or bad? Take the Industrial Revolution. It may be that the Industrial Revolution was an ambiguous event that was equally good and equally evil. And this new revolution, which is not just a technological but a cultural transformation-probably the biggest one we've ever seen since we were hominized-is equally going to share those ambiguities...
...care anything about them. I was simply sick and tired of playing sex-crazed neurotics. I didn't have anything more to bring to that sort of role." She will have to suffer seeing herself that way one more time in the forthcoming Sunday, Bloody Sunday, which is Pythagorean chic-a triangle with a man and a woman in love with the same young...
Despite its Pythagorean formality, however, Xenakis' music bears his ingeniously personal mark. For instance, during a composition called Eonta (which means "beings" in Greek) three trombonists and two trumpeters march to and fro about the stage while a pianist flays wildly away at the keyboard. In Terretektorh (one of the coined Greek words that he uses to title his pieces), the musicians blow whistles, rattle maracas, clap wooden blocks and crack small whips besides coaxing unearthly sounds from conventional instruments. As in Terretektorh, the entire orchestra will be scattered throughout the audience during the world premi...