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...whole-piece. The passage clearly intended to display technique came off as desultory peregrinations, and having the top of the piano down muted what little attempt there was at dynamic variety. Miss Menuhin couldn't play loudly enough. Beethoven concocted this mess of variations out of the simplest possible raw materials, part of an ascending scale; when played with a total lack of lustre, such Beethoven gets tiresome...
When Saarinen died at 51 last September, he left a portfolio of projects that include much of his most daring work.† Of these, the CBS building was unique in Saarinen's eyes because "it will be the simplest skyscraper statement in New York," a "vertical leap of masonry and glass." In a "return to solid, massive strength," the structure will be made of granite-clad reinforced concrete instead of structural steel, rising without a break in line from the green-granite faced, sunken plaza surrounding it. Triangular columns carrying wiring, heating and air ducts will rise...
...Victorians everywhere moved between the illimitable and the unmentionable, their arms outstretched toward vast new horizons, their eyes averted from the simplest barnyard facts. Theirs was the pre-eminent age of the railway, the morning newspaper, the club, the waltz, and eventually the tea party. But it was the age, above all, of an entrenched middle class and hence an enthroned respectability. Men were known to play tennis in top hats. The Biblical historian. H. H. Milman, was ostracized for calling Abraham a sheik. The Victorian Sunday was as cheer less as a steel engraving; the Victorian matron went swathed...
...genius has devised an impressive variety of electronic brains that solve impressively complicated problems at lightning speeds. Some can be taught to play commendable chess, translate languages (though poorly) and compose music. For all their versatility, however, they remain incorrigible simpletons; before they can solve the simplest problem, their human masters must laboriously explain-in a setting-up process called programing-just what the computers are expected to do. This week Raytheon Co. of Lexington, Mass.. proudly claimed an electronic brain which, according to its developer, can at least profit by its own mistakes...
...classic and simplest presentation of the problem is the "parable" Rights you Are If You Think You Are (1981), which is enjoying a rare revival in nearby Medford. Though one of the earliest of his 40 plays, it is the first of his dozen supreme full-evening masterpieces...