Word: standardly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CARTER: PIANO CONCERTO (RCA Victor). Unlike many of his contemporaries, Elliott Carter writes music for standard instruments, eschewing electronic effects and aleatory experiments. What's more, he even provides a dramatic script for this concerto. An individual (the piano) is influenced by society (the orchestra), learns that it is being misled, and ends up alienated and alone. Piano and orchestra converse in different chords like different dialects and at different tempos; swatches of sound appear in what seem desultory then frantic patterns; and at times the script calls for practically the whole Boston Symphony to damp down the valiant...
...Rise up and abandon the creeping meatball!" goes the rallying cry, and it has brought to the Yippie standard such underground gurus and goblins as Timothy Leary, Allen Ginsberg, Realist Editor Paul Krassner and Jerry Rubin, a key organizer of the Pentagon March. Hard-core Yippies may number as few as 400 nationwide, but Fug Sanders reckons that the total following may now have reached...
...19th century system whereby each nation set the value of its currency by weight of gold, and guaranteed to convert paper money to bullion on demand. Honoring that commitment forced nations into ruthless de flations, panics, recessions. Under today's gold-exchange standard, which was evolved in the '20s to economize on the need for the metal, central banks hold some reserves in foreign currencies convertible to gold (such as the dollar). -Tinkering daily with the price of gold during the months before that, F.D.R. liked to decide on a figure in a huddle with Acting Treasury Secretary...
France's Charles de Gaulle, who wants the Western world to return to the gold standard,* was playing only a slightly different tune from the Red band. He called the present international monetary system "inequitable" and "henceforth inapplicable." Its continuance, he maintained, would "condemn the free world to grave economic, social and political trials." De Gaulle's attitude was understandable. By committing themselves in Washington to the two-tier gold system, the five other members of the Common Market had handed France a remarkable rebuff. They not only flouted their partner's wishes, but did so without...
...acting marked by a craftsman's meticulous attention to detail: the assured swagger of the small-town cop who knows he is The Law, the wobbly waddle in the sun that evokes languidity induced by oppressive heat. To achieve the effect, Steiger relied on his standard technique: total immersion. "I've never seen a man become a role so much," recalls Director Norman Jewison. "Two weeks after we started the picture it was almost impossible to talk to Rod Steiger because he was in a Southern dialect night...