Word: standards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Reaching even further beyond the standard repertory, the all-Harvard team of Richard Kogan, piano, Lynn Chang and Robert Portney, violins, played a Trio by Moskowski, a turn-of-the-century Polish composer. The threesome showed their justifiably condescending attitude toward this shallow piece by appearing in Harvard sweatshirts, matching musical kitsch with visual kitsch. Fortunately, they treated this bubble gum in a sufficiently good-humored way to prevent its sweetness from becoming sickening...
...recent years, with everyone who has the slightest interest in the subject eager to take a few pot shots at such age-old questions as "What is meaning?" Some public interest and amusement has been spurred by the intramural squabbling of Chomskians and neo Chomskians, generative semanticists and Modified Standard Theoreticians; and the narrow, doctrinaire character of those disputes has spurred people with a broader interest in language to join the fray. Walker Percy, a novelist (The Moviegoer, Love in the Ruins), sides with those who consider contemporary linguistics as just so much debris that needs to be swept aside...
...Japan, Tomita has been known mainly as the composer of standard orchestral sound tracks for a historical drama series that is watched every Sunday night by as much as 30% of Japan's TV audience. "The orchestra is perhaps my first love," says Tomita, "but how can one ignore the synthesizer in this day and age?" For one thing, he cannot afford to ignore it. He still owes the bank $150,000 for the six electronic keyboards, four tape recorders and assorted filters, mixers, phasers and generators jammed into his 10 ft.-by-12 ft. studio with which...
...BENGALI INHERITANCE (Pantheon; 225 pages; $6.95) is also based on the gold standard. Hong Kong Senior Inspector Richard Chan is a heroic young pro whose district is the last resting place of a 24-karat fortune. The loot has been missing since 1945, when the Fascist collaborator Subhas Chandra Bose perished in an air crash. Bird-dogging the musty trail of the treasure, Detective Chan takes on a slew of Oriental cutthroats, as well as the colonial snobs who disdainfully regard him as a subgumshoe. Ceylonese Author Owen Cela is obviously no stranger to the refractions of cultural prejudice...
...traditional configuration, Sandia's upright eggbeater does not have to turn to face the breeze; its symmetrical shape offers the same surface to winds from any direction. Cribbing from jet aircraft, Polytechnic Institute of New York engineers are experimenting with a delta-shaped airfoil used in conjunction with standard windmill rotors. Pointing into the wind, the triangular whig amplifies the wind's power at least fivefold; the wind is focused into whirling streams that strike the rotors. Other teams at General Electric and at Connecticut's Kaman Corp., a helicopter manufacturer, are considering blades...