Word: sound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Farnum frowned at the sound of a passing automobile. "Young man," he said, "it is particularly disturbing to learn how often women participate in these atrocities. I mean, you would think. . ." He paused thoughtfully...
TIME publishes Robert Marschner's 38 outstanding schools on the basis of scholarship awards. When will educators wake up to the fact that schools are for all and not just the college-bound few? These schools sound like exclusive clubs. Whatever happened to the idea of universal education, or is that important...
...pristine is the cold air of Antarctica it has been said that no wood rots, no metal rusts, no food decays, few bugs survive. But U.S. interservice rivalry flourishes there. Most recent example: the argument over the marking of the 6,000-ft. ice landing-strip runway at McMurdo Sound. Navy ground crews insisted upon marking ends of the runway Navy-style, with oil barrels painted black, or even-as a concession to Air Force protests-by painting some of the barrels orange. The Air Force cargo pilots, who fly in from New Zealand, held...
...program music, more on the level of a movie sound track than a concert piece. The first movement, "Palace Square," evoked an atmosphere of imminent tragedy, with its ominous drumbeat in the background. The second, "January 9th," is a musical treatment of the mob scene on "bloody Sunday." The third, "In Memoriam," is a funeral hymn to the fallen heroes, based on revolutionary songs of the period. The fourth, "Tocsin," rising to a crashing coda, was described in a Moscow daily as "a call for tireless struggle for the highest ideals of mankind.'' The work evidently satisfied Moscow...
Although each Experiment is indeed a unique "experiment," and especially one in a Communist country, Lorenz' experiences would sound familiar to any Experimenter...