Word: rhythms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...national family- planning efforts in Mexico, Kenya and the Philippines, while Muslim fundamentalists have done the same in Iran, Egypt and Pakistan. Still, religious objections need not entirely thwart population planning. Where such resistance is encountered, vigorous campaigns should be mounted to promote natural birth-control techniques, including the rhythm method and fertility delay through breast feeding...
...performance also varies in quality and could be tighter. This is particularly noticeable in some of the Audrey II songs, where the plant's vocals come through the speaker system, other cast members' vocals come from the stage and the band's music comes from the pit. Somewhere, the rhythm is out of sync. Fortunately, the off rhythms never diverge far enough to destroy any of the numbers. Generally, the sound effects and the music add effectively to the emotional impact of the script...
...Wildcats (1-1), who posted a pitiful 4-25 record last year, put pressure on Harvard from the start and kept the Crimson (0-2) from ever getting into its rhythm...
...modern era, however, a number of composers have once again begun using mathematical techniques to compose music. Norton Lecturer John Cage, who pioneered in this area, is famed for using randomness and probability formulas (often generated by computer) to determine pitch and rhythm...
...interview, Taylor says that specific math-music connections--like the 12-tone scale and the "mathematical" rhythm of music (with beats per measure that usually come in powers of two or three)--are potentially misleading. "You can find these links but they seeem contrived," he says...