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...repertory ranged from far-in to farthest out. In a 50-min. work aptly titled Aeon, a blinding flash of magnesium flares stirred Cunningham's ten-member troupe into an otherworldly, slow-motion ballet. In the orchestra pit, Conductor Cage slowly raised and lowered his arms like a railroad signal, while his two-man orchestra conjured a percussive nightmare with such ear-splitting accents as a nail file rasped across a metal music stand. When the sound system shorted and buzzed harshly for several minutes, the audience accepted it as part of the show...
...questions, all multiple-choice, are aimed at ferreting out how well the student has assimilated a broad spectrum of knowledge. One question from the sample testing asked the student to identify a quotation "In a flash it came upon me that there was a reason for advancing poverty with advancing wealth . . ." as coming from John Jacob Astor, William Jennings Bryan, Thorstein Veblen, Lincoln Steffens or Henry George. The answer is Henry George, and research showed that more than half the students in the top one-fifth of those taking the test got it right, compared with only 8% of those...
...developed her own teaching methods. At one table a white boy and a Negro girl, with a tutor, play a game of homonyms, thinking up and writing down such words as "knew and new," "won and one," "two and too." At another table a tutor helps a boy with flash cards to increase his word-recognition speed...
Roar. Rattle. Bump-bump-bump. Bee-eep beep. Clang. Rat-tat-tat. The illuminated sign at a Nishi-Ginza intersection in downtown Tokyo blinks a tentative 80, then flashes to 82. Red light. Screech! North-south traffic stops. The number blinks: 81, 79, 78. Ready, eastwest? Engines whine. Clutches out. Getaway! Flash goes the sign: 79, 81, 82-84!-See THE WORLD, The Fresh Start...
...light. Screech! North-south traffic stops. The number blinks: 81, 79, 78. Ready, eastwest? Engines whine. Clutches out. Getaway! Flash goes the sign...