Word: randomly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Morse Code, and a metronome that, with a few adjustments, clicks out a syncopated beat. Lately, he seems most tickled by a small box he and two undergraduates built, which has been programmed with the algorithms of various types of music. Given a note, the machine will make a random choice based on probabilities of which note to hit next, and how long to hold it. The result is an inoffensive if bland series of electronic tones, reminiscent of belly-dancing one moment and, after flicking a few switches, baroque music the next. It's not great music...
...MONASTIC WORLD, by Christopher Brooke, photographs by Wim Swaan (Random House; 272 pages; $35). Pictorially, this is as exhilarating and artful a presentation of Christian monastic structures as any popular volume ever before assembled. It includes not only such oft-visited sites as Assisi and Mont-Saint-Michel but also monasteries that seem more like eagles' aeries, such as Saint-Martin-du-Canigou in southern France. The text, moreover, is a lucid, sympathetic but judicious treatise on the monastic life and its reverberations in society, written by Medievalist Brooke, a historian at London University...
...make sense for Derek or his v.p.s to drop in on departmental meetings from time to time for the announced intention only of getting to understand the problems better? Should any of our departments be consulting more regularly with parts of the faculty? Is it possible to make random phone calls from time to time to various faculty members just to find out what's on their mind...
...share of the market. He has even been known to arrange for local record stores to feed competing stations false information about best-selling records. The bamboozled competitor plays losing tunes while Bennett's own station blasts out the real biggies. In that ultimate radio-ratings booster, the random phone-call contest, Bennett is like a child feeding ducks on a pond. At a station in Miami, he once handed out $125,000 in less than two months. Says Lloyd Melton, station manager of Phoenix's KUPD: "He gives contest money away to the extent that he virtually...
...GOOD OLD DAYS-THEY WERE TERRIBLE! by Otto L. Bettmann. 207 pages. Random House. $10. Otto Bettmann of the Bettmann (picture) Archive adds a needed dash of bitters to the nostalgia craze with this illustrated reminder that in the good old days (circa 1860 to 1910), pigs crowded people off New York streets, untreated garbage brought disease to the suburbs, Chicagoans and Pittsburghers lived in perpetual smog -the word coined by a Glasgow sanitary engineer in 1905. The author's words and pictures also jolt the modern reader with the horrors of oldtime horse-traffic jams, railroad accidents, street...