Word: noting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...speech. He accused the U.S. of "brink of war" policy for planning to send rocket submarines near the Russian coast and added: "The American generals and admirals cannot but know that our country also has submarines equipped with atomic engines and armed with rockets." U.S. experts took note of Russia's first claim to nuclear sub capacity and were inclined to believe Khrushchev. Best estimates are that Russian subs have only short-range rockets fired from the surface, still have nothing comparable to the U.S.'s Polaris. Possible reason for the timing of the announcement: the launching...
...beefed up its Marine contingent); 2) confiscate the remaining $250 million in U.S. businesses, including branches of Sears, Roebuck and Woolworth, Westinghouse and General Electric; 3) break off diplomatic relations entirely; 4) stage an "incident" to prove U.S. aggression. At week's end the U.S. sent a curt note to Havana protesting that five Castro airforce planes were being painted over with U.S. insignia at San Antonio de los Banos airbase near Havana. With the blue-and-white U.S. star on wings and fuselage, the planes could easily create the incident Castro wants...
...EDITOR'S NOTE: The following article, an excerpt from Professor Tillich's informal report on his recent lecture trip to Japan, appears by special permission of Dr. Tillich. The full report was not intended for general circulation...
...idea of "controlled improvisation" to free classical music from its "slavery to the printed note" first occurred to Composer Foss while listening to the high-brow jazz of the Modern Jazz Quartet three years ago. Foss invited a group of classical players-all former composition students of his at U.C.L.A.-to get together and improvise freely in a classical counterpart to the jazz manner. They soon had to give up that approach: "We just daydreamed; we didn't make music." What he was looking for, Foss realized, was a group improvisation in which every player would in some...
...clear grasp of the crispness requisite for a Mozart overture was in evidence as the orchestra performed the overture to La Clemenza di Tito with note-perfect accuracy while preserving considerable nuance in phrasing. The sutleties never detracted from the urgency and vitality of the piece--Which, by the way, is a curious amalgam of Gluckian melodrama and a Rossinian Flippancy, a flippancy that the Italian himself rarely could equal...