Word: tunings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from medicine and mathematics to modern sculpture in papier-mâché. Previous visitors probably remember the reproduction of Michelangelo's frescoes in the Sistine Chapel shown at Easter time, or the animated diorama of the First Continental Congress. This week we are opening "A Science Tune-In: New Horizons in Light and Sound," created with the assistance of Bell Telephone Laboratories...
...audiovisual guide to the achievement and promise of contemporary technology, the "Tune-In" includes 20 demonstrations, and takes as its theme a quotation from Sir Francis Bacon: "The real and legitimate goal of the sciences is the endowment of human life with new inventions and riches." Visitors will be able...
...Tune in on communication among fish as well as on transmissions from distant galaxies, and hear, on immediate playback, the sound of their own voices as they would have been recorded on equipment available in 1900, 1920 and today...
...Mahalia Jackson, Clara Ward and James Cleveland often came by the house for jam sessions, whooping and clapping, singing and playing all through the night while Aretha watched intently from a corner. Once, at a funeral for an aunt of Aretha's, Clara Ward was singing the gospel tune Peace in the Valley; in her fervor, she tore off her hat and flung it on the ground. "That," says Aretha, "was when I wanted to become a singer." Aretha had the spirit, all right; after her first solo in church at the age of twelve, excited parishioners crowded around...
...simply not Aretha. You see flashes of her, and then she's back in her shell." Since, as a friend puts it, "Aretha comes alive only when she's singing," her only real solace is at the piano, working out a new song, going over a familiar gospel tune, or loosing her feelings in a mournful blues...