Word: serialism
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...firemen George Bennett, Joseph O'Hare, and John Rocca of the rescue squad from the hall and traps them at the window of 600. Clouds of smoke stream out of the windows, forcing the firemen out on the sixth-story window ledge. After a terrifying delay, the large serial ladder moves to the window, and the three men shakily climb on and descend. They were among six firemen treated for smoke inhalation at Cambridge City Hospital...
...network was not only gambling on soap opera in prime time but also doubling the stakes with another innovation-running the untested show two nights a week. But the network reasoned that 1) audiences could be hooked as easily in the evening as in the afternoon by the serial format, and 2) that the U.S., newly caught up in the "romantic escapism" of Ian Fleming, might be similarly ripe for the "realistic escapism" of Grace Metalious. Realism, of course, turned out to be a euphemism for a concentration of sexual adventurism such as no network had ever risked before...
Like a character in an oldtime western serial, Real Estate Tycoon William Zeckendorf has ridden his ailing corporate steed, Webb & Knapp, Inc., through a series of cliffhanging adventures and crises. Somehow he has managed to avert disaster each time with an ingenious plan or a daring, last-minute rescue. Last week Bill Zeckendorf, 59, found himself in the worst trouble of his spectacular career. With no rescue in the script this time, the end seemed finally in sight for a saga that has endlessly fascinated and amazed the business world...
According to Krenek serial music is an attempt to reinject a personal element into composition. The composer of serial music predetermines the organization of sound material arbitrarily, while the non-serial composer is restricted by the demands of the conventional harmonic structure, he explained...
Krenek pointed to twelve-tone music as a specialized case of serial music. The twelve-tone composer exerts his prerogative when he determines the organization of pitch prior to actual composition. Serial music extends arbitrary pre-organization to other musical elements, such as dynamics, rhythm, range and density, Krenek said...