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...probings set MJQ's style. Lewis etched an outline of Sigmund Romberg's Softly, As in a Morning Sunrise. One by one, cued only by instinct, his colleagues joined him: the genial Heath, eyes closed, his fingertips lightly brushing the strings, while Kay, the pulsemaker, fabricated a succinct beat ornamented by miniature percussive effects-rippling wind chimes. Jackson's keyboard work at the vibes, reminiscent of Art Tatum's quicksilver piano, provided the melodic keystone...
...message itself was succinct: a three-minute transmission in mathematical code describing the make-up of the solar system, the inhabitants of earth, the present world population and the double helix of the heredity molecule DNA. The signal was transmitted last week by a team of U.S. scientists from the giant radio telescope at Arecibo, Puerto Rico, a vast antenna 1,000 ft. in diameter lining a natural bowl formed by hills. The target was Messier 13, a cluster of some 300,000 stars located on the remote fringe of the Milky Way. Addressed simply to "Occupants" of any planets...
...Yale Law School graduate whose campaign against Republican Incumbent Paul Cronin largely turned into arguments over disclosing income tax returns, personal credibility and political tactics. The campaign became a personality contest in which Tsongas' quiet confidence and unassuming manner were more effective. He had a succinct explanation for his success: "The people wanted a Democrat. We could not have won if Watergate had not taken place...
Heilbroner's approach is simple and straightforward, his style succinct and extremely readable. And his almost unconscionably brief treatment of such an overwhelming question is actually quite reasonable. The gravity of the human prospect, argues Heilbroner, is based not so much upon the ability to rationally predict the problems of the future, as in an appraisal of the capacity of all mankind to meet up to the challenges of the future; this self-evaluation is necessarily subjective. The Human Prospect introduces the reader to the more predictable challenges and solutions of the future, and leaves the doors leading into...
...answered three questions. No, he had not authorized David Young to request a psychological profile of Ellsberg from the CIA. No, he had not known that one was being assembled. No, he had not been aware of a plan to obtain information from Ellsberg's psychiatrist. That succinct testimony by the Secretary of State ran counter to Young's assertion that both Kissinger and Ehrlichman had asked for the profile...