Word: programing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PIERRE HENRY: LE VOYAGE (Mercury). Old-fashioned program music played by newfangled electronic means-and what a program. Following the text of the Tibetan Book of the Dead, the work details the experiences of a dying man from his last breath on earth to his first breath as a reincarnated spirit. The eerie chirps and breathy gurgles are as disembodied as sound can be. A graduate of the Paris Conservatory, Henry once composed for conventional instruments, but found that the sonorities in his head required new outlets; he has since made his name with his new sound mixes...
...last year's successful government bid for special decree powers to deal with France's economic problems. His final break with De Gaulle came when he voted for last month's censure motion. The Movement is the freshest Centrist answer to the Gaullist/Communist dilemma, with a program of dialogue, decentralization and economic planning. Prospects: Pisani expects to win no more than five seats, then build for the future...
Founded by the Blessed Gerard in Jerusalem in the 11th century to care for pilgrims to the Holy Land, the order has returned to a mission close to its original calling. The knights support a worldwide program of medical aid and refugee relief that extends to 42 countries. Of some 8,000 members, only 40 take the order's religious vows...
...federal court last year, New York City Housewife Florence Flast and six other taxpayers argued that far more than three pence of their tax money was involved in a federal aid-to-education program that paid for tutoring in parochial schools. But their case was dismissed for lack of "standing." The gist of "standing," the Supreme Court once explained, is whether a plaintiff's personal stake in the suit is enough "to assure sharp prosecution of the issues." And a taxpayer's stake has been held too small to support a suit contending that a federal expenditure exceeded...
...world stands to gain from student protest," but he took issue with the New Left creed, which has inspired much of the campus disorder. "It represents an assault on rationality in politics, with its dismissal of free discussion and its conviction that violence will mystically generate policy and program. If men or mechanisms were infallible, there would be no need for persuasion; but because they are not, the discipline of consent is indispensable to civilized society...