Word: spectrum
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...arrangements are the work of four musicians recruited from groups like the Stan Kenton band and the Harmonicats. True virtuosos of the pop spectrum, the four compose jingles to suit every current radio-station format−top 40, soul, middle of the road, easy listening, country and western, and subtle variations in between. One of the composers is a master of the Moog Synthesizer and the sophisticated electronic effects that are increasingly in vogue...
...Sesame Street [Nov. 23] is a spectacular spectrum of meaningful motivation. Where else can you sing along with Pete Seeger, find a goodly measure of mirth with the Muppets, and learn in spite of oneself? Thus the so-called low achievers are mentally massaged by the TV medium-so much so that an impossible attention span of an hour is commandeered. Learning can and should take place beyond the big red schoolhouse. With the advent of today's technological instruction techniques, perhaps a portion of learning can take place in the home again. For learning is not limited...
...Physics, the most distinguished from within the Harvard community, Purcell must be considered the Corporation's "Pope John" on the list. Because of the 66-year-old mandatory requirement age, he would be an interregnum president if chosen; both academically and politically, he is highly respected by the entire spectrum of the Faculty and most students who have taken his course...
...unentertaining continent." Paris in the 1920s was mecca for a whole gallery of artistic emigres whom Gertrude Stein labeled the Lost Generation; Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Pound and Cummings led a luminous lot. Now there is a new kind of American expatriate abroad in the world, drawn from the whole spectrum of U.S. society. Collectively, they lack the glamour of their famous predecessors, and their personal motives are different: the expatriates of the 1920s left America looking for art and excitement, while the new expatriates are avoiding the pressures and problems of American life today (see ESSAY, next page). In an unconscious...
...rock's swiftly broadening standards, Harrison's musical spectrum is almost Wagnerian in its width and style. The poetic spectrum of his lyrics-mainly about fear of loneliness or love of God, of his wife, of love itself-is narrow, but still capable of bite...