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SPRING has come, and with it, Boston's vernal rite of music. Each evening from April through June, the marble pilasters of Symphony Hall are transformed into the foundations of a plastic Lawrence Welk wonderland by the magic baton of Arthur Fiedler, as thousands of faithful look...
Much of the music played by Zacher these days is what is often called "wallpaper music," because it is largely concerned with surface textures and shapes. Ligeti's Volumina, for example, would go beautifully with white plastic furniture and the spare squares of Josef Albers. The work consists of dissonant clusters of notes produced by leaning on the keys with the butt of the hand and the forearm. Volumina radiates the same waves of contrived unreality as Ligeti's Atmospheres, which defined the mood of outer space conclusively on the sound track of the film...
They swaggered through Manhattan streets almost daily-sleeves rolled up, feisty grins on their faces, hoarsely chanting "U.S.A. all the way!" Their ranks were made up of hundreds of beefy construction workers in hardhats of plastic or metal, joined by longshoremen and blue-collar workers from a dozen other trades. Police kept the construction men well apart from spectators. Each time they marched in the financial district, the hardhats were showered with ticker tape, like national heroes...
...overwhelmingly favorable. Like most of their predecessors, Masters and Johnson were also subjected to a barrage of stinging criticism that has yet to subside. They were accused of using a troupe of sexual athletes wholly untypical of the population at large. Masters had built a rather bizarre device: a plastic dildo connected to a camera, which could photograph the interior of the vagina. Partly because of this apparatus, the authors were accused of dehumanizing sex and concentrating on technique at the expense of romance and morality. Psychiatrists and clergymen attacked the project as an invasion of privacy. Masters and Johnson...
Bill Masters and Virginia Johnson reached St. Louis and their dedication to sex research by entirely different routes. Inspired by the passionate medical interests of his younger brother Francis, now a plastic surgeon in Kansas City, Kans., Masters also chose to study medicine. During his junior year at the University of Rochester's medical school, he fixed on his lifelong professional goal. An internship in obstetrics and gynecology in St. Louis reinforced his conviction that sex was the last important biological function that was still largely unexplored. "I got no training in sexual functioning," he says. "Neither did any doctor...