Word: serialization
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...later, a second batch of certified letters is sent to all those who have not responded. After that, the quest is turned over to Detroit's R. L. Polk & Co., which keeps track of car registrations across the country. Polk thereupon sets out to trace nonanswering owners through serial numbers and licensing bureaus. It goes this far: last year G.M. and Polk, toward the end of an Oldsmobile cam paign, narrowed the field of unaccounted-for cars to three, and the searchers have not yet given up on them...
...number that identifies Russian Novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn on this week's cover is the same number that identified him all through his long years in a forced-labor camp. The serial style of the portrait, with its four panels showing Solzhenitsyn emerging from the faceless anonymity of the political prisoner, is an equally precise identification of the artist: Texas-born James Gill...
When Schoenberg discovered how to organize atonal music by creating a new "scale" for each composition-an arbitrarily arranged series of the twelve chromatic tones-Webern extended the serial principle to such areas as rhythm and dynamics. Here he approached a state of total abstraction in which a piece would unfold entirely in accordance with the rules invented for it in advance by the composer, much as a computer responds to its mathematical programming...
...LIFE TO LIVE (ABC, 3:30-4 p.m.). Soap operas don't necessarily have to wash all white any more. In this new serial set in and around Philadelphia, one of the central figures is a black intern who wants to live it like it is. Premie...
ALBERTO GINASTERA: CONCERTO FOR PIANO AND ORCHESTRA (RCA Victor). The violent and voluptuous new opera Bomarzo (TIME, May 26, 1967) demonstrates that Argentina's Ginastera does not let such modern disciplines as serial technique stand in the way of red-blooded musical drama. His concerto is full of mellow drama as well-racing scales, rushing rhythms and suspenseful pauses, after which, sometimes, nothing much follows. Nevertheless, orchestral color is beautifully provided by the Boston Symphony under Erich Leinsdorf, and flashy keyboard fireworks are brilliantly set off by the young Brazilian pianist Joáo Carlos Martins...