Word: colorful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reason the death penalty has virtually no deterrent effect on capital crime is simply that the general population, including the criminal elements within it, has been so completely isolated from the harsh realities of capital punishment for such a long time. If executions were televised live and in color, like press conferences, the fear of being put to death would be quickly reimplanted in the minds of all potential capital offenders. Capital punishment satisfies the moral obligation of those who take lives unlawfully to relinquish their own lives in return...
...young plant breeder from the Ukraine, burst onto the Soviet scientific scene with a beguiling claim: that the inheritance of physical characteristics could be manipulated in plants by their environment. It was an idea totally at odds with modern genetics, which holds that an organism's basic color or shape, say, is passed from one generation to the next by the genes with inflexible regularity (except when they are mutated). But the theory was highly compelling to Stalin; he had become increasingly annoyed at the failure of conventional agricultural scientists to boost the output of the inefficient collectivized farms...
...open-air music for Venice's Piazzi San Marco. The canzon is a work which really has a vocal-fugal style but is played instrumentally. From this standpoint the concert band evoked the antiphonal character of the piece effectively, with strong modulations and an acute sense of tone color...
...concert band's finest showing of the evening came in its execution of the Symphony No. 6 for Band, Opus 86 by Vincent Persichetti. A six-minute commission turned into a four-movement symphony and the work was handled by the group with all the full-bodied color and ensemble of a regular orchestra...
...view of growing racism in the U.S. and around the world, we urge concerned students, faculty and staff of whatever color to unite to oppose racism in all its forms. Nancy Bancroft Harvard-Radcliffe Committee Against Racism