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...citizen of New Century Three who is saved from a loveless life by a siren named LARA 339-827. "I would like to be in a mating booth with her . . . the full authorized twenty minutes," he mutters to himself, after brief study of her "rhythmic" torso. Author Walt Sheldon gives him the torso for keeps by bundling the pair of them into a rocket and heading it for Mars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Horrors in Space | 4/7/1952 | See Source »

...best church music, Davison finds that the technical elements which make a "sacred" style include an irregular rhythmic structure which fulfills the texts, rather than a distracting, strongly-accented, steadily-beaten pulse. He thinks music written in modes other than the familiar major and minor scales is effective in producng an other-worldly, non-secular atmosphere...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Davison's 'Church Music' Describes Four Century Trend to Mediocrity | 3/29/1952 | See Source »

...ended the program. While thoroughly at home in the musical language of America today, as examplified by Barber and Copland, Mr. Rickard avoids being merely imitative. His musical ideas are original and he expresses them in a carefully thought-out, effective manner. The Suite contains a wealth of ingenious rhythmic and structural patterns, yet their variety never endangers the unity of the work as a whole. The deeply-felt final adagio--rising to a loftier, more intense level of expression than any of the other movements--seemed to be the consummation of ideas expressed in the contemplative opening movement...

Author: By Au Gratin, | Title: Harvard Composers | 3/28/1952 | See Source »

...group concluded with Beethoven's Third Rasoumovsky Quartet, a work it has played much better in the past. Rhythmic laxity marred the first movement, and the brilliant fugue of the finale suffered from lack of clarity in some of the voice parts...

Author: By Lawrence R. Casler, | Title: Budapest Quartet | 3/5/1952 | See Source »

...Bray has graduated to the nursery for children aged three to eight, and many of her former charges have graduated with her. For this older group she has organized rhythmic games (hand-clapping and singing). She has led a pitiful procession of the mentally lame, the halt and the spastic to the colony's canteen, a whole block and a half away, for a treat of ice cream. "We had never seen anything like that happen before," said a fellow worker. "Everyone talked about it for days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Outstretched Hand | 3/3/1952 | See Source »

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