Word: sounding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jordanians have long expected Hussein to crack down on the fedayeen, who stand in the way of any hope of a settlement with Israel. Two weeks ago, residents of Jordan's capital of Amman awakened to the sound of gunfire. Loyal Bedouin soldiers clapped a tight curfew on the city and rounded up members of Kataeb al Nasr ("phalanx of victory"), a shadowy group on the fringe of the fedayeen movement. Tensions ran high between the Bedouins and the dispossessed Palestinians who now make up a restless majority of Jordan's population. When Bedouins also attacked a training...
...consequences of U.S. withdrawal (U.S. spending accounts for half the island's G.N.P.), voters were only offended at his disrespect for the opponent who was his former teacher. Meantime, Yara's campaign workers pinned on him the devastating label "yellow Yankee." The campaign raged over Okinawa, with sound trucks punctuating the air with the rival slogans...
MISS HAHN introduced music in her second performance, and once again showed her bias against traditional form, toward freer--perhaps more hazardous--interpretations of dance. The Company concentrated on pieces in which the relationship of sound to movement was abstract. Miss Hahn used sound to create a very general field in which the dance took place; or, at times, she refused to define the relationship. Movement and music followed their own tracks and the connection was left to each member of the audience. Sound and movement sometimes had completely separate existences coming together only at crucial moments...
Computers are finding unlimited opportunity in the arts. Music, for instance. The electric wave which goes from a musical instrument or a recording into the speaker of a sound system can be represented with total accuracy as a sequence of numbers. And since computers can do anything with numbers, they can in principle duplicate not just any sound that the human ear can hear but any sound that can be created. They do it by emitting 20,000 three-digit numbers a second--something no human could ever do--and turning them into an electric wave that can activate...
Brian Dowling walked casually across the water of Long Island Sound yesterday musing on next Saturday's game against Harvard...