Word: scaling
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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HOME and family are the focus of Middle American morality. Thus the women of Middle America are often more disturbed than their husbands by the assaults on that morality. They usually reduce large issues to the immediate scale of their lives: inflation is a steak not served, law and order a five-year-old son who must walk six uncertain blocks to school. Their voices are not so much shrill as perplexed...
Apprehensions and Rumors. This year Russians looked forward to Stalin's 90th birthday with none of the fabricated ardor of 1949, but with some apprehension. Dissidents warned that this decennial might be made the occasion for a full-scale rehabilitation of Stalin, and some feared that this would be accompanied by an increase in repression. They pointed to the gradual refurbishing of the dictator's image as a wartime leader, particularly in such military memoirs as Marshal Georgy Zhukov's. They also noted that the growing movement for civil rights and for increased intellectual freedom...
...Boulez's crucial attitudes on Debussy: "Far from being a historical dead end, his music contains the sources of a great deal of 20th century music." To the ears of his ; contemporaries, Debussy's novelty lay in his exotic harmonies, in his use of the whole-tone scale, and in his impressionistic handling of instrumental color. Actually, Debussy shattered the concept of melody into pointillist fragments, emphasizing such qualities as rhythm and timbre. In each of his mature compositions he invented the form as he went along, thereby making it inseparable from the content of the piece...