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...Mozart. Throughout the first two movements he demonstrated his ability to play with emotive expansiveness while maintaining the lightness and delicacy of the music. Occasionally, however, the performance seemed to lose momentarily its sense of direction and its healthy self-confidence. The last movement was taken at an astonishingly rapid tempo which tended to emphasize Kogan's talents as a technician at the expense of his musical abilities. Although his displays of virtuosity were undeniably impressive, they seem better suited to works like those of Saint-Saens than to Mozart's ethereal classicism...
Bravo for "The Computer Society" [Feb. 20]. The rapid advance of technology might be a more frightening phenomenon if man's ability to change and adapt were not what put us in this position in the first place...
...rapid rise in subscription rates occurred after the Harvard University Press took over publication of the Health Letter and supplied better distribution and publicity facilities, Goldfinger said...
...administration of Columbia University has dropped plans to crowd students in two undergraduate dorms next September in the wake of rapid and well-organized student protest, an assistant dean of that university said last week...
...fantastic rate, while raw human intelligence is changing slowly, if at all. Computer power is growing exponentially; it has increased tenfold every eight years since 1946. Four generations of computer evolution-vacuum tubes, transistors, simple integrated circuits and today's miracle chips-followed one another in rapid succession, and the fifth generation, built out of such esoteric devices as bubble memories and Josephson junctions, will be on the market in the 1980s. In the 1990s, when the sixth generation appears, the compactness and reasoning power of an intelligence built out of silicon will begin to match that...