Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...panel tackled the question on everybody's mind: Is this still music? Yes, said the panelists (including Stockhausen), despite letters from puzzled listeners asking whether their radios had been affected by "interplanetary static" or whether they had been listening to "part of the opera Cat on a Hot Tin Roof...
...earlier judgment, said the committee, was the fault of Stalin, who was listening to such notorious tin ears as Beria, Molotov and Malenkov. Presumably, the "socialist realism" of Shostakovich's, Khachaturian's and Prokofiev's more recent works also helped clear the composers' names. But for the younger generation of Soviet composers, nothing had changed. In a burst of gratitude to the party, Shostakovich, 51, and Khachaturian, 55, promptly approved a decree criticizing "unhealthy trends" in recent musical works. To disassociate himself from the dangerous moderns, third-rate Composer Vano Muradeli, 50, chimed in with...
...talk about production of 2 billion board feet a year (v. 33 billion Stateside). Scarcely tapped, too, is Alaska's mineral treasure, which boasts 31 of the 33 metals on the U.S.'s critical list (exceptions: industrial diamonds, bauxite). The North American continent's only major tin deposits lie in the Seward Peninsula, and some of the world's biggest known iron-ore deposits wait in the Klukwan section. Coal, as one engineer says, is "all over the damn place...
...similar reasons, cameramaker Bell & Howell this year tripled its ad and sales promotion budget to $600,000 for the second quarter as part of President Charles H. Percy's antirecession campaign, while Reynolds Metals is diversifying rapidly into new markets for aluminum swimming pools, auto parts, boats and tin cans. "We had all these programs before," says Vice President John Blomquist of Reynolds Aluminum Sales Co. "But now that business is tough, we're moving a lot faster in these development areas...
...least two years ahead of his American counterpart in scientific attainment; he has had ten years of mathematics, six years of biology, five years of physics, four of chemistry. Westerners have found that even children's toys point up the stress on science: while dolls and tin soldiers are shabbily made, such gadgets as toy TV sets, workshops, radios and telephones seem to have been manufactured with expert care...