Word: taking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Composer-Critic Herbert Elwell found Rochberg's mastery of the tone row remarkable and his symphonic ideas "deeply absorbing." The style, explained Composer Rochberg, was strongly influenced by Schoenberg, but he had a warning for young composers who turn to Schoenberg and Stravinsky too early: "Before you take off, you've got to be on the ground...
...center and captain of the Hawks, and Slater Martin, playmaking guard who at 5 ft. 10 in. is the smallest man in the league. "Share swings between me and an opposing player and holds the other guy off so I have time to take a shot," he explains. "Martin rifles the ball with such accuracy on the fast break that I get to it just at the right time." But in basketball there is no substitute for scoring points at a record clip, and Bob Pettit is doing just that...
About seven years ago Massachusetts Institute of Technology developed machine tools with small mechanical brains that take their orders from punched paper tapes. Needing no human help, they eliminated the jobs of many human operators, but as compensation, they created jobs for mathematicians to put their instructions in the number language that their brains understand. Last week M.I.T. demonstrated a second step: it had developed a gimmick to dump the mathematicians...
Backs to the Wall. Many abstractionists go to Dr. Bontzolakis. not only because they are a franc a dozen in Paris but also because his wife paints (as Colette Bonzo), and her friends take their troubles to him. Madame Bontzolakis' work is strictly representational-flowery examples hang in her husband's office...
Besides having one of the richest diets and the most varied menus on earth, Americans daily consume a haphazard assortment of an estimated 400 chemicals added to foods as preservatives, coloring agents, antioxidants, mold inhibitors, bleaches, thickeners, thinners, emulsifiers and moisteners. This week, to take both the hap and the hazard out of the addilives, a new law (signed by President Eisenhower six months ago; becomes effective. Its burden: before processors may add any chemical to food, its safety must be proved to the satisfaction of the Food & Drug Administration...