Word: sounding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CREAM: GOODBYE (Atco). This British trio produced a distinctive, complex, closely woven blanket of sound. Actually, each member of the group-Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker-is a highly individualistic musician, and only the centrifugal force of their hard-driving performances kept them together for nearly three years. Just before disbanding, Cream said goodbye with this album. It is the cream of their crop...
...PIANIST, a lean young man with a strangle lunar light on his face, surveyed the piano, placed his hands on the keys--I always sit on the left to see his hands--and, unbelievable as it seems, simply sat there without motion or sound. Well, the audience regressed from expectation to uneasiness; then, in crescendo of frustration, through irritation--it was hot, the air fairly visible--rumor (Is he stricken? Sane? Obstinat?) anger, shouting, disgust, and finally mass departure. What is music coming to...?" Only to renewal. The pianist, by refusing to "play," gave rhetorical expression...
...would have been destroyed as well as all reasonable artistic communication, since that presupposes some conscious relation between at least two people. I suppose that the reason for anxiety over the death of music is that the avant-garde will lead unswervingly to solipsism, in which each sound in heard not in terms of itself, but in terms of oneself. In solipsistic art, there would be no style, only epiphanies. But the death of music seems impossible so long as there are sounds to be heard, minds to give them personal texture, and wills to give them meaning...
...headline to a collection of brief interviews in the Times on April 25 stated that the faculty was "divided." In reality, whatever individual statements obtained by telephone interviews may sound like, such "divisions" have not been reflected in votes. Most faculty actions have shown remarkable unity, and even the action to modify the Afro-American Studies Program was passed by a majority of almost 100 votes. In fact, the cohesion of the faculty has been Harvard's greatest advantage over most other universities in trouble. That would have been the far more important news story...
...students during the discussions about grade reform, are among professors most aware of student sentiment. Yet the language of the Committee's report shows the continued estrangement between students and faculty "Excellence of teaching is not possible unless the teacher believes that the process by which he teaches is sound. We believe that the same must be true about learning." The same is true about learning. The Committee--a group of men with a vested interest in the system which has allowed them climb to the top of the ladder in legal education and in many cases in government--have...