Word: pleasingness
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Scratching Mice. Partch grew up on the Mexican border, where his father, an ex-missionary who thought of himself as an "aggressive atheist," had gone to work for the Immigration Service. By the time he was 22, Harry had composed a scholastically pleasing string quartet, a symphonic poem and a...
There is an obvious solution: cook up synthetic detergents that even choosy bacteria will consider delicious. And last week Esso Research and Engineering Co. of Linden, N.J., announced that it has finally found a recipe with the proper ingredients: pleasing to the bugs and cheap enough to fit the household...
With four operas, seven ballets and four symphonies already behind him, Henze turned up in New York last week for the world premiere of his Fifth Symphony, commissioned by the New York Philharmonic for its first season at Lincoln Center. The Fifth is Henze's Roman symphony, marked by...
Inside the tight limits of musical formality, fresh ideas seem to die like birds blundering against a window. Pleasant enough music can still be written within the old boundaries, but its most pleasing aspect is likely to be its very familiarity. In their continuing search for an escape into originality...
This trend is far from pleasing to the telephone companies. "It interferes with our basic function,'' says a spokesman plaintively. "We're supposed to be helping people communicate." There are also less philosophical reasons. The more unlisted numbers, the fewer phone calls, the less revenue. And the...