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...countless reasons it today impossible to recreate exactly the sounds that met medieval and early Renaissance cars, but this in to wise invalidates the attempt. Even so, the listener may not have an easy time of it. The various musical styles and the language of the texts are relatively unfamiliar (the singers wisely read an English translation of the texts before each vocal piece). The instruments used are now obsolete and belong to what wee called "low instruments"--the lowness referring not to pitch but to decibels--in this case, the recorder, lute, viol and clavichord, all of which...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Adams House Musical Society | 2/18/1955 | See Source »

...before. There was no haze, but a sort of coppery burnish out of the air lit on flowing fields, rocks, the face of one house, and the cliff of limestone overhanging the river. The river gorge cut deep through the uplands. This light at this hour, so unfamiliar, brought into being a new world--painted expectant, empty, intense. This month was June...

Author: By Edmund H. Harvey, | Title: A World of Love | 2/14/1955 | See Source »

...will make its subject--the $2,500,000 Brink's robbery--look like petit larceny. The film's chances for financial success are limited, however, since it appeals mainly to Bostonians wanting to see some familiar scenes and to the robbery's original cast wanting to see some unfamiliar and ludicrously phoney ones. The Boston scenes, by the way, are real, for the Universal people were not satisfied with a cardboard Common. Unfortunately, however, they were perfectly satisfied with cardboard characterization and plot...

Author: By Richard A. Burgheim, | Title: 6 Bridges to Cross | 1/29/1955 | See Source »

This relay was the only event Coach Hal Ulen tried to win against the hapless Engineers. Otherwise, he benched all his first-line men or swam them in unfamiliar events...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swimmers Romp Over M.I.T., 76-8 | 1/13/1955 | See Source »

...pack a lot of energy, and when they hit molecules in the mixture, they will tear them apart by breaking chemical bonds. Since the broken places are highly reactive, they will grab the nearest suitable atom, thus creating molecules of new compounds. They will speed up familiar reactions, start unfamiliar ones, and form compounds that the chemists have never seen before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The New Chemistry | 12/6/1954 | See Source »

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