Word: scrap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what the music was like; indeed, to one who has heard the music, describing it is redundant. Yet this least programmatic of music suggests images: less the constant motion of neon lights than the silences and quick thrusts of Karate, the openness and jaggedness of a sculpture of welded scrap...
...class warfare of musician and conductor is as old as ego. But to Szell, the whole scrap is an empty one. "We are all in the service of music," he says, "and we must approach it with all the good will possible." Because he is the most authoritarian man now conducting, this means play it his way, or else...
...when it became patently clear that there was a wide-open, undefended path through Canada for Soviet bombers, Canadian defense officials began secret nuclear negotiations with the U.S. Diefenbaker still hedged. Returning from a Nassau meeting with British Prime Minister Macmillan and President Kennedy, during which Britain agreed to scrap Skybolt bomber-carried missiles in return for Polaris-armed submarines, Diefenbaker told Parliament that bombers had been ruled obsolete. Therefore, he said, there was no need for Canadian nuclear de fense against a transpolar Russian strike...
...slightly oldfangled institution, the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, and the strain shows like a taut cable in its 28th Biennial Exhibition. The manner of hanging the show is selfconscious: all the stripes in one room, all the figures in another, all the old auto parts and welded scrap metal in a third. The 145 paintings, chosen from among more than 4,000 submitted as colored slides, display a comic propensity for dated titles: November 25th, July III, 23 September 1959, July 20, '61, Between March and April. Even the winner of the $2,000 first prize belongs...
Harvard, however, which appears to be pulling itself together, might be able to bother Cornell. Coach Wilson is on record as saying that if his team gets by Columbia, it should "give Cornell a good scrap...