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...anywhere as precise as what the economists have for the economic system." Nor do the social scientists have a measurement for social values akin to the dollar, although one possible theoretical unit is called the "utile," used by economists to weigh the price people would pay to avoid the sonic boom of an SST, for example, as against the economic benefits that the plane would give them...
...click. Or another would blow through a trombone to achieve a breathy effect. There were prolonged single notes and furious tonal scurryings up and down the scale. Yet the Peabody Contemporary Ensemble blended it all into a fascinatingly rich texture of abstract, color-crazy sound in which dense sonic images were rent by small plinks as sharp and gleaming as broken glass...
...test human tolerance to supersonic airliners, which may disturb as many as 130 million Americans every day by 1975 with sonic booms, a panel of scientists last week recommended an immediate program of experimental flights over populated areas. "It's not clear," said Harvard Scientist Roger Revelle, "just how intolerable is 'intolerable.' " That question would apply to many aspects of modern life. In city after city in the U.S., strikes or slowdowns have closed schools, stopped garbage collection, endangered the public safety. The city itself sometimes seems more malignant enemy than hospitable friend. Looking at the sunset...
...activists at the bottom are unlikely to achieve the miracle reforms that skeptics often demand, and many a Doer crusade is quixotic-witness those largely unsuccessful if unflagging dreamers who battle against highway billboards, jet sonic booms and all-digit telephone dialing. All the same, big social explosions these days are usually caused by a pile-up of many small problems-nearly all of them soluble by small-scale activism. The fact is that democracy needs Doers at every level. How can the U.S. ensure that there are always enough to go around? Does it develop them? The answer...
...course forgive the laws of parallelism for driving him into the past tense). No such comparison says anything qualitatively about Bacharach's music, but the hard time I'm having phrasing even an abstract description of it does say more, I think, about the sweep of Bacharach's sonic vocabulary than about the boundaries of my verbal...