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...grales, Density 21.5, lonization, etc. (Rene Le Roy, flute; New York Wind Ensemble, Juilliard Percussion Orchestra, Frederic Waldman conducting; Elaine Music Shop, 2 sides LP). Percussionist Edgard Varèse is a Buck Rogers of music whose drummings, thumpings, clangings and shrillings make the compositions of such modernists as Stravinsky seem old-fashioned arid conventional. Here is a full sampling for the hardy. Recording: good...
...Tribune" said Colonel McCormick, "we have only modest claims to make." In Cook County's frantic sheriff race said Bertie, "we made the fight that beat 'Tubbo' [Police Capt. Daniel A. Gilbert] and elected [John E.] Babb. Also, we carried Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, Colorado, California, Minnesota and Wisconsin. Not bad. We carried Michigan for all of the ticket but [Harry F.] Kelly [the G.O.P. candidate in the still-disputed governor's race], and carried all of the state for him except C.I.O. Detroit and the upper peninsula, which, without railroad mail service from Chicago, is lacking...
...more, by a kind of fatality, you see them draw apart from their coreligionists, a hive ready to swarm. There is provocation on both sides . . . Then, while you hold your breath and turn away your eyes in fear, the break comes; condemnation or secession, what difference does it make? A fresh name has been added to the list of Christianities...
...London's Architectural Review, British Scholar Geoffrey Grigson sets out to make a case for three such painters, all born in 1741: Henry Fuseli, John Henry Mortimer, and James Barry. "They share," Grigson says, "in the sense of turmoil, of the black and red river, of the black and cavernous and jagged abyss . . ." In plainer language, all three painted more or less high-toned horror pictures...
...Said Gulick: "Machines can now perform most of the routine operations performed by human beings in mass production manufacturing, mass clerical operations, and in the exercise of technical control processes." They can observe facts and reach conclusions from their observations. They can store facts in their memories. They can make decisions based on observed facts plus remembered facts. They can communicate automatically over any distance. They can set other machines in motion, keep watch over them and correct their action, keep accounts and make reports at any desired stage...