Word: written
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scene of next winter's Olympics. At the same time, vast and fundamental changes rapidly affecting the whole world have been covered by color spreads on such subjects as space medicine (May 26) and the U.S. atomics industry (Jan. 12). All of them have supplemented TIME's written words and have helped to present a broader and more compelling record of newsworthy places and events...
Unlike catalogues of company advertisements or statistical accounts of salary scales, the Guide consists of personal article written by men who are acknowledged leaders in their fields...
...addition to budgetary considerations, the Dining Hall Department is hampered by poor public relations. The Student Council evaluation of the College dining halls, written by D. Dwight Dogherty '59, deemed the lack of publicity as the greatest problem of the kitchen authorities. Dogherty suggested hiring a full-time public relations director, but this suggestion, although aimed in the right direction, has definite drawbacks. The wages paid another official in the hierarchy might better be spent in research or in sauces for the turkey...
Despite the advance beyond tonality in the early years of this century, the power of this great organizing force has been strong enough to dominate most of the production of Bartok, Stravinsky, and Hindemith. It dominates a good deal of the music being written today. The atonalists have not found it easy to resist. How can a piece of music be held together without the familiar tonal relationships? Some composers (Elliott Carter, for example) have attempted highly individual and cerebral ways of unifying a large work. Others have seen a revivifying solution in the twelve-tone system, from which...
Another major device is the degree of freedom Wolff affords his performers. While he may be mathematically precise at times, frequently he gives the pianist his head, allowing him to vary the written notes rhythmically or even choose notes of his own. In the shorter work he sets up a kind of game between the two pianists--each must follow a cue given by the other, and each has a certain number of alternatives for every cue. Wolff is writing for his performers quite as much as for his audience. In discussing this technique he does not refer to Western...