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...Schoenberg discovered how to organize atonal music by creating a new "scale" for each composition-an arbitrarily arranged series of the twelve chromatic tones-Webern extended the serial principle to such areas as rhythm and dynamics. Here he approached a state of total abstraction in which a piece would unfold entirely in accordance with the rules invented for it in advance by the composer, much as a computer responds to its mathematical programming...
...PRISONER (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Patrick McGoohan, formerly the weekly hero of Secret Agent, returns as a man incarcerated in a remote and mysterious community by unknown captors. His identity and the reasons for his imprisonment unfold as the series progresses. A summer replacement for the Jackie Gleason Show, Premi...
...proposed reform is designed to assure that the reading be somehow done before the lectures unfold...
...Conspiracy. There was no "typical" riot last year, observed the commission. Each was a unique and complex drama that, "like most human events, did not unfold in an orderly sequence." Thus it is not surprising that the commission found no single tactic successful in combatting riots. The rioters themselves, however, were typical. The majority were male Negroes between 15 and 24, who were lifelong residents of the ghetto and high school dropouts. They were usually better educated than their non-rioting neighbors, proud of their race, hostile to whites and middle-class Negroes, and distrustful of the U.S. political system...
Similar scenes of devastation unfold ed elsewhere in a land that has long lived with poverty and the Mafia's cruel rule. Unlike Salaparuta, where all but a few of the villagers had time to flee, scores of people were crushed to death in cascades of masonry in such neighboring towns as Montevago, Gibellina, Santa Margherita di Belice, Salemi and Santa Ninfa. Montevago's lawyer, along with five companions, perished trying to race the tremors in his tiny Fiat. The town's doctor died on his way to save his mother. The earthquake was by far Italy...