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...over the moor, calling Teayn's name, they beat their way through the furze and heather. While they continued their man hunt up to and past Fraser's house, the crofter coolly phoned the police, set a warm meal before the exhausted man. The Russians did not abandon their search until 2 in the morning, and as they pushed off from shore emptyhanded, the blue, green and white curtain of the aurora borealis shimmered above them...
What the visitors heard last week was music pushed a step beyond the otherworldly compositions of French musique concrète, which utilizes natural sounds taped and glued together in weirdly unnatural order. The resident composers at the Cologne studio tend to abandon natural sound in favor of sounds artificially manufactured on tape. Represented at the demonstration were Hungarian Composer Gyorgy Ligeti, 34, whose Articulation consisted of a series of blips and plops dramatically relieved by an occasional electronic belch, and Composer Gottfried Michael Koenig, 32, whose Essay punctuated its eerie, sustained sonorities with harplike electronic roulades. But the high...
...Sputnik and the crisis in American education have done their work to sober up the traditional week of reckless abandon, when the "old grads" return to Cambridge, and to the "bright college days" of ten, twenty-five, or fifty years ago. Being a Harvard alumnus has become a year-round...
Also, Thurber needs them in The Last Flower to play off against the rabbits--now normal in size, but fierce, not meek. Note the sequence: war ends; the dogs, symbols of normalcy, abandon man; fierce rabbits descend; with time, natural conditions resume; children chase away the rabbits; the dogs return to man. Nature at the start was inverted both by war and the denial of sex. The rabbits can be viewed as the scourge of the gods (or of nature) after war, and one might add that the "enormous rabbit" itself could be America's fear of warfare...
Insurrection broke out first in Algiers, when 30,000 French colons, fearful that a new French government might abandon Algeria, rioted in the streets, sacked the Government Building, and were calmed only when Paratroop General Jacques Massu announced that he had taken power in Algiers in defiance of Paris. That left it up to Paris: to the National Assembly to capitulate or fight back; to the mobs in the street to enlist for or against the battered, precarious Fourth Republic...