Word: constructiveness
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Pivotal Notes. Foss began to construct a system built around a series of pre-agreed pivotal notes and a system of letters that indicated what roles the various instruments were to assume at differ ent times. Now he has abandoned the idea of pivotal notes, but the group still starts with "a certain musical vision," worked out in countless rehearsals and set down in graphs and Foss's own specially devised symbols. "If we hit something good," says Foss, "we try to remember it. If something bad, we try to forget it." The technique, insist the players...
...more mechanically minded, do-it-yourself dinosaur construction kits are on sale. These kits provide a mass of miniature plastic Tyrannosaurus Rex bones from which the prospective paleontologist can construct his own small scale dinosaur skeleton...
Both the letter by Mr. Schnur (CRIMSON 10/11/60) and the reply by Mr. Cowan missed most of the points worth making on the issue of the construction of fallout shelters. Mr. Schnur argued that we should construct shelters because nuclear war is possible and it is suicidal not to be prepared. Mr. Cowan argued irrelevantly that "the atmosphere created by current Civil Defense measures has unquestionably instilled in the American public a certain complacency about nuclear...
...shelter program would cost much more money, it would seem, than the prospective development by the Soviet Union of a way to circumvent it. The chief objection to a shelter program, and there are others which Mr. Cowan implied, thus emerges as economic. It would cost more money to construct than to countervail...
...treaty largely engineered by World Bank President Eugene Black. Under the treaty, India will receive the full flow of her three rivers. Pakistan will keep the three others. So that the Pakistani areas downstream of India's rivers will not turn arid, an Indus Basin Development Fund will construct a massive system of connecting canals, bringing water for the northern rivers to fill the empty southern river beds. Six foreign countries (the U.S., Britain, Canada, Australia and two newcomers to the foreign aid game-West Germany and New Zealand) will supply $640 million of the fund's eventual...