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DEATH OF A MAN (181 pp.)-Lael Tucker Wertenbaker-Random House...
...this all. Wolff along with Frederic Rzewski '58 then appeared as composer-performers in an Invention for Two Pianos (Mar. 27, 1957, 9:15-9:25 p.m.). They each put a sheet of paper with some jottings on the rack and proceeded to punch out a random series of notes vaguely reminiscent of the chicken-pecking school of composition. From time to time they stopped, glared at each other for a while, nodded, and then renewed the assault. I was ready to surrender after the first of these skirmishes. It is a shame that Rzewski, a fine pianist and perhaps...
...securities they handled, loaded them with glib predictions and tips on questionable stocks. According to a 1933 survey by the Cowles Commission for economic research, 1928-32 forecasts of how certain stocks would perform were actually 4% less accurate than if the choices had been made at random from the list. Eleven years later a similar survey by the commission found that accuracy had improved hardly at all; since then, experts who follow the letters have noted little change. At the end of 1956, for example, most market letters touted steels and airlines as good bets...
...these is the amplification of radio messages. If an ordinary amplifier is set for too great a gain, all it does is magnify the random noise caused by the thermal motions of atoms and electrons. At the extremely low temperature of liquid helium, thermal motions almost stop, so Dr. Strandberg figured that an amplifier that would work at such temperature might be efficient beyond dreams...
COLLECTED POEMS (175 pp.)-Kathleen Raine-Random House...