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...turns out that many did, but it didn't do most of them any good. Thousands of ticket orders, even those postmarked in the wee hours of the first day, had come back unfilled. For relatively few of the World Series tickets were sold to the general public at random, competitive basis. Instead, the front office dispensed its favors through a largely covert system of political and corporate patronage...
...incorporation of noise--random sounds or deliberately unpleasant ones--is common in contemporary compositions. Composers who are willing to use elements other than beautiful instrumental tone can choose among a wide range of new sound possibilities. Penderecki's depiction of the Hiroshima bombing is terrifyingly vivid because he can evoke the sounds of that event in a concrete, physical way, using clusters of notes, angry raspings and other unlovely sounds...
...foreign policy, unless you have an overall design, your behavior grows random. It is as if, when you are playing chess, a group of kibitzers keeps making moves for you. They may be better chess players than you are, but they cannot possibly get a coherent game developed. Especially if, at the same time, you have to explain each of your moves publicly so that your opponent can hear...
...parents pulled up stakes and moved to California when Bruce was still in his teens. Bruce stayed behind, with some bad memories of hassles with nuns in parochial school, an $18 guitar and random dreams of a phantom father for company. By the time he was 18, he had some perspective on his father. "I figured out we were pretty much alike," Springsteen says, by which he means more than a shared cool skill at the pool table and a taste for long car rides. "My father never has much to say to me, but I know he thinks about...
POWERS OF MIND by ADAM SMITH 418 pages. Random House...