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Word: tronic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...luxuriate in private. Inside our houses (try not to call them "homes") is where we let ourselves go with our art collections and our furniture and our closets crammed with Huntsman suits, Sulka shirts and Lock hats. It is also perfectly O.K. to amuse yourself with elec- tronic equipment. Nothing ordinary, of course. One of my friends says he uses a small computer to help him with his racing forms as well as with the stock market, and quite a few have closed-circuit television to communicate with the nursery and the servants' wing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: ON BEING VERY, VERY RICH | 7/12/1968 | See Source »

...cured of the lust for money and you want to produce something-well, heavy." Other experimental rock composers seem motivated more by a restlessness to burst out of conventional molds. San Francisco's Steve Miller, who is writing a suite that will combine Stockhausen-influenced elec tronic music with rhythm-and-blues, says simply: "I don't dig three-minute sections." Classical and Jazz Composer Bill Russo, director of Chicago's Center for New Music, puts it even more decisively: "The music had two directions to go-to get decadent or get longer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock: Something Heavy | 12/29/1967 | See Source »

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