Word: interestingly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...general assembly a 16-point reform program put together by himself and Wyatt. Among the measures pushed through the assembly ("This," said one legislator, "has been the hardest-working, lightest-drinking session in Kentucky's history"): 1) a merit system of state employment; 2) a realistic conflict-of-interest law; 3) a fair-elections law, requiring voting machines throughout the state; 4) the first statewide cleanup of Kentucky's voting rolls; 5) an average $1,100 raise in teachers' salaries and a probe of the inept education system; 6) establishment of a $4,000,000 business-development...
...whole thing, explains 47-year-old Composer Cage, was a simple exercise in "indeterminancy." Back in his relatively traditionalist period, Cage composed pieces for percussion orchestras, featuring prepared pianos and weird electronic effects. But now, he says, he has no further interest in "expressing myself. I have no desire to improve on creation." The new object is to surprise not only the audience but the performers and the composer himself. When he was asked to write a piece for the Circle in the Square Composers' Showcase series, Cage sat down and worked out his basic time scheme according...
Markevitch now juggles two orchestras, the Lamoureux and the Montreal Symphony, spends the rest of his time guest conducting about the world and teaching. His special interest is working out a more exact conducting vocabulary; strictly defined movements by the conductor, he feels, ought to evoke a strictly standardized response from the orchestra. But he is also concerned about the response of his music-glutted audiences. "To have Beethoven coming out of the radio tap from morning to night," says Markevitch, "is worse than not knowing Beethoven...
...funds for orderly growth. It is unlikely to take any big measures to ease the money market, which has already begun to ease on its own; but it can easily bring about a further relaxation by permitting member banks to borrow more. This could lead to a reduction of interest rates, encourage heavier business spending, especially in construction...
MANAGEMENT CHANGE is expected at Brown Co., a major New England paper and pulp maker, whose earnings have been falling. Thomas Mellon Evans, who took over Chicago's Crane Co. (TIME, May 11), has acquired an important stock interest in Brown...