Word: suggestibility
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bernstein wants to suggest that these same processes are at work in music, "transforming" basic musical material into its complex "surface" form. This is an appealing thought. Reiteration and variation of thematic material is certainly a fundamental principle of Western music, and poetry as well. If Bernstein could demonstrate an affinity between the mechanisms of musical variation and of transformation in language, he would be making a real contribution to aesthetic theory...
...suggest that Harvard's meatless days are designed to soothe middle-class consciences is as valueless as pointing out that The Crimson's insistent demarcation of the true political path, be it ever so impossible to tread, is designed to soothe the conscience of Marxist boy-editors. It may be correct, but even if it isn't, who cares...
...someone who cooks his own in a Radcliffe co-op, may I suggest that Mr. Kupferberg rethink his opposition to the cheese souffle, the rice and bean casserole, and the friendly omelette? Who knows? He might even decide to live in a co-op like Radcliffe's Jordan K, where, as in the real world, switching to five meaty days a week would be no cutback. Adam Glass...
More cautious projections, though, suggest that the Great Gold Rush of 1975 may turn out to be a walk at best, with total sales as low as $900 million, for several reasons. After coping with rising prices for necessities, Americans do not have much money left to commit to a purely static and defensive investment that pays no interest or dividends. Prospective buyers have also become increasingly aware in recent weeks of the risks and expenses in owning bullion. So, too, have some banks, where most of the gold is expected to be sold. The nation's two largest...
...those prices suggest, Soviet consumers are beginning to be troubled by the Western disease of the mid-1970s: inflation. That is always hard to measure in the Soviet Union, partly because various forms of "hidden" inflation are so prevalent-goods that decline in quality but not in price, for example. Even so, state-administered prices remain low for such essentials as rent, schooling and books. But with shortages of much-desired consumer goods still the eternal Soviet problem, the planners have moved to sop up excess demand by allowing prices to float up anywhere from...