Word: schaeffer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...University of Chicago's exuberantly extracurricular Alice Schaeffer, 21, is an English major from Evanston, who moved the dean of students to burble that she is "the veritable Renaissance woman of unending versatility." A top scholar, Alice won such praise by tireless toil for the university theater, the annual Blackfriars shows, the Darwin show, the Billy Barnes Revue, the interdormitory council and the Festival of the Arts. This summer she has a job in a student revue at Chicago's Sherry Hotel; next fall she heads for Stanford and a master's degree. Her dream...
...general, the future can be heard in our categories: 1) the musique concrète of French Composer Pierre Schaeffer and his followers, consisting of natural sounds taped and glued together in unnatural order; 2) the electronic music favored by German composers, which abandons natural sounds for electronically manufactured yowls and bleeps; 3) a combination of the two techniques, to explore all "structural, nonaccidental and engineered sound"; and 4) a technique for breaking down and reassembling the human voice-"kontinuierliche Klangjarbenüberg...
...Automatic testing machines were employed to determine cholesterol content of blood specimens, a job which these machines, according to Schaeffer, "are not yet capable of performing accurately." ¶ Coagulation tests at one laboratory were conducted on blood samples collected in special tubes supplied to doctors by the lab; the tubes contained oxalate, a chemical agent which prevents coagulation. ¶ For the sake of speed, some labs resorted to "sink tests," simply poured samples down a drain and blandly reported "negative" results to the doctors who had requested analysis...
...least one contract laboratory, Dr. Schaeffer found, openly suggests in its advertising brochures that doctors can increase their income by subscribing to its flat-rate service, then charging unknowing patients "discretionary" fees ranging as high as those they would pay for personalized lab service...
...those who do become Christians are not likely to be superficial ones. "They're no fools," says Schaeffer. "When they make a decision, they possess the intellectual framework to make it in. We have had to solve the most unlikely problems, and the Lord has even helped us in preventing certain suicides. But religion isn't a crutch for kids or psychos. Religion is the universal truth. It is irrational to think that watertight doors exist between religion and intellectual thinking. A step of faith is no step in the dark...