Word: scales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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JOYCE GARY, by Malcolm Foster. The discontent of the artist in organized society emerges as the major theme in this first full-scale biography of the late author of such novels as The Horse's Mouth and Herself Surprised...
...develop a larger program for publicly assisted housing. . . . It is vital that the supply of low cost housing (especially for the elderly) and of moderate cost housing (for both faculty and community residents) be increased: this cannot be done without joint public-private effort sof a kind and scale not yet attempted in the city. . . . We believe it is possible for the city and the universities to announce, after appropriate study, a joint program to add a certain number of housing units with a five or ten year program. We would like to see the university, as part of this...
...more than $20,000. The fact that Mississippi's Senator James Eastland's plantations receive $157,930 a year for not growing cotton - while some of his constituents go hungry - ought to be reproach enough. Ironically, the Agriculture Department is also spending millions to improve big-scale Southern commercial farms, thus driving Negro farm laborers out of jobs and on to Northern welfare rolls. The Government should do far more to help and retrain those laborers - in the South - thus saving more money and needless misery in the North. Critics have suggested that the space program could well...
...coming bombastic; midgets must combat a tendency to seem cloyingly cute. Since what counts, however, is not an artist's limitations but how successfully he transcends them, both can hope for im mortality. Indeed, they are flip sides of the same coin: both rely on scale to create an effect...
...tiny streams of pizzicato noises. Occasionally a player would press down a trumpet valve without blowing, and let it go just for the click. Or another would blow through a trombone to achieve a breathy effect. There were prolonged single notes and furious tonal scurryings up and down the scale. Yet the Peabody Contemporary Ensemble blended it all into a fascinatingly rich texture of abstract, color-crazy sound in which dense sonic images were rent by small plinks as sharp and gleaming as broken glass...