Word: strictness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whether the composer adhered in this one movement Trio to the twelve-tone system or strict atonality seems no longer relevant, for this system is essentially something that merely schematizes a texture common to a variety of chromatic music written today. Chromaticism is merely one of several formulae conducive to an additive set of interrupted expostulations. And what we have, then, is not one work of art, but several, minute fragmentary ones. Only at fleeting instances when Schoenberg suddenly gave symmetry to his expression did its mastery and genius drive home to this prejudiced listener...
...first programs were picked up in student rooms by tapping the radio to the radiators. After three weeks of such operation, a smug technician heard the station over his automobile receiver on the way home from Wellesley somewhere in the Newtons. F.C.C. has strict limits on the radiation of unlicensed stations, so the Network turned from the radiators to the cold water pipes...
...Only other state with a similar strict prohibition: Massachusetts...
...Strict Headmaster Peters, a man more respected than loved by his boys, would be turning over a $2,000,000, 36-acre campus (built in his own regime) on the edge of Cleveland's suburban Shaker Heights. Its assets included a big-league style ballpark, three football fields, 13 tennis courts, a quarter-mile track. Peters used to pitch on the faculty team himself, until a few years ago could beat the school's ace tennists, still does daily...
...sprayed on cattle, barns, downtown restaurants, garbage pails, old-fashioned outhouses. But the state authorities warn that DDT alone will not make Iowa flyless. Flies breed in any sort of decaying organic matter. Eggs hatch and adult flies develop in about eight days. DDT will kill flies, but only strict sanitation will keep the fly reserves from mounting a counteroffensive...