Word: witting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some composers challenge posterity with a roar. Others woo it with seductive languor or graceful wit. Austrian Composer Anton Webern conjured it with a whisper. A shy, intense man who physically shrank from noise, he wrote spare, slight pieces filled with directions like "scarcely audible" and "dying away." Such was the understated economy of his scores that his life's work amounts to a bare three hours of playing time. Nearly all of his compositions take less than ten minutes to perform. He turned out works containing as much silence as music, and that was how an indifferent world...
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Shattered Remains. One of many German scientists interned by the Allies, Hahn heard the news of the atomic bomb in England. Normally a man of dry, underplayed wit, he became so depressed by the appalling application of fission that his colleagues feared that he might commit suicide. Once back in Germany, Hahn struggled to rebuild the shattered remains of his old institute as president of its successor, the Max Planck Society. He also became an outspoken foe of atomic weapons. In 1957, joining the 17 other prominent West German scientists in the Göttingen Manifesto, he vowed never...
...campus where strangers walking by each other rarely exchange greetings, blacks are conspicuous because of their gregariousness. George Curry, who attends Knoxville (Tenn.) College, said, " Wit blacks they go by, and shake your hand and ask, 'What's happening tonight, brother...
...this era of shock theater, it is hard to realize that there were mellow days of social comedy, when moral and political dilemmas were discussed in the drawing room with reason and wit. In the '30s, Samuel Nathaniel Behrman was the master of the form (Rain from Heaven, No Time for Comedy). Now 75, he has applied the formula to his first novel, and it is as well-turned and entertaining as his best plays...