Word: schaeffer
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Similarly, the work of the Italian Futurists, who loved the frenetic pace, noise and pollution of large cities, was echoed more than 30 years later by the French creators of musique concrete. Pierre Schaeffer assembled “songs” from ready-made noises of jackhammers, traffic, spinning pan covers and locomotives. Edgar Varse combined visual art with musique concrete for his “Pome electronique,” which was commissioned for the Brussels World Fair in 1958 and combined electronic voice manipulation and pulse generation with film projectors, ultra-violet lights and hundreds of fluorescent lamps...
...biggest draw of the five-day conference was a lecture series on Friday night by Peter Kreeft, professor of philosophy at Boston College, and Fritz Schaeffer, professor of chemistry at the University of Georgia, filling Science Center B lecture hall, with an overflow crowd in lecture hall...
...forum features Christian speakers such as Alvin Plantinga, former president of the American Philosophical Association, David Barton, the founder of Wallbuilders, a Christian political organization, and people in secular fields such as Fritz Schaeffer, professor of chemistry at the University of Georgia and Lee Rouson, a two-time Superbowl champion...
...past. Psyched out, tapped out and even shopped out--How many cell phones and cashmere scarves do you really need?--they are making this holiday, as a Los Angeles boutique owner puts it, "ho ho hum." "Some CEOs haven't seen it this bad since 1990-91," says Peter Schaeffer, a partner at Ernst & Young...
...bears are a risk because they've been "frightening Boy Scouts on camping trips"? I thought the Scouts went camping to learn about nature. STEVE SCHAEFFER New York City