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...work tells its story. Echoi is Greek for "echoes," and, as Foss explains in his notes to the recorded version of the work, is also a name for some ancient Arabian modes. The piece is in four parts, somewhat loosely-structured, and is partly aleatory-at a random signal from the percussionist, the performers jump back to an earlier section of the work and replay it, in order to destroy whatever structure may have been created. I can have no quarrel with the performance-it seemed all right to me, but the work itself seems open to question. Aleatory music...
...questions, N.A.E.P.'s varied format includes questionnaires, short-answer tests, performance tasks (using scientific equipment), interviews and group discussions. The project is run by a permanent field staff working in private residences and about 2,500 schools. Individual participants-100,000 of them to date-are chosen on random but statistically valid bases, and are never given scores or grades...
...recession ?important as those issues are. Across the U.S., the universal fear of violent crime and vicious strangers?armed robbers, packs of muggers, addict burglars ready to trade a life for heroin?is a constant companion of the populace. It is the cold fear of dying at random in a brief spasm of senseless violence?for a few pennies, for nothing...
Anger and Depression. Student demonstrators turned out to be no tiny radical minority. Questioned before the Cambodian incursion, 42% of the students polled said that they had participated in antiwar protests, nearly twice as many as had joined civil rights actions. Out of 100 antiwar demonstrators picked at random, 13 called themselves Republicans, 20 were Democrats, 62 were independents and only five considered themselves radicals. Of the 5,000 students polled, however, more than 40% had altered their political loyalties because of the war. Of these, only 7% increased their commitment to one of the two major parties, the remaining...
...FILE ON STANLEY PATTON BUCHTA by Irvin Faust. 274 pages. Random House...