Word: serially
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like a character in an oldtime western serial, Real Estate Tycoon William Zeckendorf has ridden his ailing corporate steed, Webb & Knapp, Inc., through a series of cliffhanging adventures and crises. Somehow he has managed to avert disaster each time with an ingenious plan or a daring, last-minute rescue. Last week Bill Zeckendorf, 59, found himself in the worst trouble of his spectacular career. With no rescue in the script this time, the end seemed finally in sight for a saga that has endlessly fascinated and amazed the business world...
According to Krenek serial music is an attempt to reinject a personal element into composition. The composer of serial music predetermines the organization of sound material arbitrarily, while the non-serial composer is restricted by the demands of the conventional harmonic structure, he explained...
Krenek pointed to twelve-tone music as a specialized case of serial music. The twelve-tone composer exerts his prerogative when he determines the organization of pitch prior to actual composition. Serial music extends arbitrary pre-organization to other musical elements, such as dynamics, rhythm, range and density, Krenek said...
...inveterate Crimson readers will recall with nostalgia H. Lewiss's chilling serial "The Circle of Seven," the first five episodes of which appeared in these pages during the spring of 1962. Mr. Lewiss's accidental death in an avalanche on Die Jungfrau brought the series to an untimely (and most unfinished) end. Now, at last, the Crimson is able to publish the entire story, for the late author's younger brother, C. Lewiss, a graduate student in Mineralogy, has completed the manuscript and kindly made available a final version of this mystery masterpiece. Episodes of "The Circle of Seven" will...
...GOLD OF THE RIVER SEA, by Charlton Ogburn. His plot has enough vigor and ingenuity to sustain a three-year television serial, but Novelist Ogburn's most memorable achievement is his depiction of the Amazon, an evocation in the tradition of Mark Twain's 'Mississippi...