Word: score
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...species to species. Americans waiting for a bus will automatically space themselves several feet apart; Arabs will cluster. In studies conducted on animals, Hall notes that a population crisis occurs when this sense of psychic space is invaded by overcrowding. The birth rate drops and animals die by the score-apparently from stress alone. Something equivalent, suggests Hall, could happen if modern society began to feel itself psychically overcrowded and overstressed...
ROBERT AND ELIZABETH (His Master's Voice). This hit musical, based on The Barretts of Wimpole Street, has been running in London for two seasons, is due to come to Broadway late this fall. The original cast album is a delight, combining a lyrical score with fine singing and sheer charm...
...Ranger mission was the first to touch down, and relief showed on Johnson's face as he got the news: all were back safely. Then the score from Thailand clattered in. The President exulted: "It's incredible, it's really incredible that this could happen with the loss of only one plane...
...world's most lethal concentrations of antiaircraft guns and missiles. Haiphong's precious complex was guarded by 56 multicaliber antiaircraft guns and seven SAM sites. Hanoi's installation bristled with more than 90 ack-ack guns, countless massed machine guns and nearly a score of missile sites. How heavily defended the targets were-thanks to the help of Moscow and Peking-the pilots well know...
...male cast, headed by Tenor Andrea Velis as the madwoman, masterfully performed Britten's difficult, often eerie sing-speech style of vocal writing. The score was as delicate and intricate as a spider web, interlaced with the chatter of small untuned drums and plunking strings reminiscent of Oriental music. The most impressive achievement was that, in mixing such disparate elements as modern dissonances, a morality play and No drama, there was no clash of styles but rather a smooth melding into what is a new and wholly engaging musical form...