Word: spottedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From a conversation he overheard in the mess hall, he knew that the Dutch air force C-47 standing outside was about to take off for Australia. He tried to sneak aboard but found the plane door locked. As he circled the plane, looking for a place to hide, he...
Electronist Stockhausen started out as a comparatively conventional rebel in the Anton von Webern atonal vein but soon felt he had "dried up" and started looking for new effects. At Cologne he can get just about any effect he wants with the aid of an array of recorders and filters...
Died. Sammy Bronstein, 81, onetime St. Louis newsboy who turned to money-lending, helped St. Louis newsmen make it from one payday to the next, charged them interest at rates upwards of 5% a week; of uremic poisoning; in St. Louis. Young Sammy engineered a steady $2.50-a-week retainer...
Composer Britten, a resident of Aldeburgh (pop. 2,689), likes to write for children-"They find my idiom easier than grownups do, and they don't argue with me. You never find a child saying, 'That note should be F natural.' " He recruited his 5-to 17...
No newspaper in the world has more distinguished byliners than the massive New York Times. With its 50 foreign correspondents alone, there can be and sometimes are differences in interpretation of the same situation to be spotted by the close reader. Last week readers close and casual were enjoying a...