Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...watching a tape of the Johnny Carson Show. Rostropovich never severed his communication with the audience. Colorful metaphors abounded. At one point in the Haydn D major Concerto, a theme appears twice in the score: once in the low, masculine register of the instrument and then in the bright, upper register. "Why, all of a sudden, does the theme appear in the upper register?" he asked after Gregory Colburn '79 had played the passage. And without waiting for a reply, he added, "Because there was not enough air in the low register. It is as if you open the window...
Crumbled Adobe. Those who could least afford to rebuild their lives and homes were hardest hit. Most hotels, office buildings and homes in upper-class neighborhoods in Guatemala City survived. Ever since a 1917 earthquake that destroyed the city, such buildings have been designed with shocks in mind. The heaviest damage and most of the casualties occurred in country villages where crumbling adobe walls dropped heavy tile roofs on sleeping victims. The highland Indians were stunned at how easily their homes had disintegrated. "We need wood," said one who had saved his family of six but lost his house...
...attitude that bribery is acceptable where it is customary seems to be widespread in American business. Recently, Pitney-Bowes Chairman Fred T. Allen commissioned Opinion Research Corp. to poll upper-and middle-level corporate managers on whether they believed bribes should be paid to officials in foreign countries where such practices are standard. A surprising 48% said yes. A survey of 73 senior international executives, announced last week by the Conference Board, an independent business research organization, came up with exactly the same finding. Three-quarters of the executives said their companies had been asked to pay bribes...
...surface of the sun, are hurled through space to the earth. At lower latitudes, most of the protons are deflected by the earth's magnetic field. But near the poles, where the lines of the field bend toward the earth, the protons slam into molecules in the upper atmosphere and cause a shower of electrons. These, in turn, crash into nitrogen molecules, ionizing them and allowing them to combine with oxygen. As a result, nitric oxide (NO) and nitrogen dioxide (NO 2 ) are formed; both react readily with ozone molecules and cause their destruction...
DeGaetani's tone in her low register has an eerie, mysterious quality which reflects the ambiguous and sinister tests by Stefan George. Her upper register however is just plain ugly. When she goes above the staff, she sounds as if she were struggling to free herself from someone clutching at her throat. Fortunately, she doesn't have to go there too often and her performance remains sensitive and dramatic if not always beautiful...