Word: traps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Agricultural Engineer Clarence Hansen and Agronomist A. Earl Erickson began working on the idea seven years ago when they noticed that certain areas of Michigan produced a high yield of crops from loose, sandy soil. The soil was productive, they realized, because an underlying layer of clay was trap ping rain water instead of allowing it to drain away, thus keeping the surface soil moist. "We decided to mimic these soils," says Erickson...
...character reassuringly: "Think of it as very late at night." The lateness of the night, the thirst of the soul, the solitary anguish of the self-these have always been the prevailing mood winds of Albee's plays. But he cannot construct a credible plot in which to trap them, and he fails again in Balance...
STAR TREK (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). A cruiser-size rocket ship, called the U.S.S. Enterprise and captained by William Shatner, investigates new worlds and unimagined civilizations in deep space. First episode: "The Man Trap...
...ever battled with him and come away unscathed. Back home in Los Angeles, Yorty called a press conference. Smiling as if he had just come from a health resort instead of the steam bath of a Senate hearing, Yorty charged that he had been caught in "a trap" set by Bobby Kennedy as part of his "lavish campaign to build himself up and tear President Johnson down. He's trying to ride on his brother's fame and his father's fortune to the presidency. This headstrong young man has become very arrogant." Bobby, said Yorty...
...often concentrates on developing a brief melody by very slight changes in the background harmony or by interchanging the chords backing up the melody, any subtlety of phrasing that is missed when the melody first appears becomes painfully magnified. Conductor Schmidt was most successful in evading this trap, leaving only the "Alleluia" motifs in the last movement a bit raw. A very strange circumstance about the performance was that the tiredness of chorus and conductor after wading through all that went before resulted in exactly the right amount of energy being channelled into it. Had the Symphony of Psalms been...