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...piece began slowly: a couple dances alone, six join them and then six more arrive. Suddenly the women are flying through the air in a whirlwind of purple and violet. As the tension builds the entire group in unison begins to wriggle, writhe and shake. Then in a mutlisecond switch they are standing stiff as boards. These fast movements continue--appearing like a video set at high speed--until one can not absorb any more. Then the choreography slows down, even as Gerhwin's concerto continues to roll...
Ginsberg: My main interest was art for art's sake, purely literary. But literary means a lot of different things. There is an old saying by Plato or Pythagoras, "when the mode of the music changes the walls of the city shake." Or, what [William Carlos] Williams said, "the new world is only a new mind." Or, Blake: "the eye altering, alters all." When there is a new perception in poetry and a change of the form, it generally means a change of body rhythm, a change in thinking about language, and a change in consciousness itself. And this...
...learn from all different types of people Contrary to the arguments made by those favoring the status quo random group assignment would foster rather than destroy house spirit. Students would work to create their house identity each year rather than conform to existing reputations. Harvard could use a shake up like this...
...lost wings, one over Texas in 1959, the other over Indiana in 1960. Ninety-seven people died. The 400-m.p.h. propjet plane was found to suffer from a "runaway flutter," in which vibration was transmitted from an engine to a propeller and then to a wing, which would sometimes shake loose. Lockheed spent $25 million to modify the design and strengthen the plane. Gradually, most pilots lost their fear of the aircraft, and a military version, the P-3C Orion, has proved reliable in tracking submarines...
...Pakistani nuclear installation before it was capable of producing nuclear weapons. The proposal had been firmly rejected by Mrs. Gandhi, and Indian intelligence officials, as one remarked, "smelled a rat." After Mrs. Gandhi's assassination by two of her own bodyguards six weeks later, intelligence agencies underwent a major shake-up. When routine surveillance aroused suspicions about some officials, intelligence officers met with Rajiv and informed him they had evidence against some employees in his own secretariat. He told them in effect to let the chips fall where they might. In raids on the homes and offices of the suspects...