Word: correspondence
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...word satz means both sentence and symphonic movement." This seems a bit simplistic, though, so he tries again with parts of speech, equating nouns with motifs and adjectives with their harmonic underpinnings--Wagner's Fate motif played over a diminished chord could mean something like "cruel fate." Verbs naturally correspond to rhythm, so Bernstein adds some triple meter at the piano and comes up with a complete sentence, "cruel fate waltzes...
...manner of investigation and case-closed verdict of a virus leaves more questions unanswered than resolved. Students who complained of illness had symptoms that did not correspond with viralgastroenteritis, but rather staphylococcal food poisoning...
...Paris as a writer-in-exile, he crosses the ocean to become a writer-in-residence at a prestigious Eastern university. The memoirs at hand dash through some fifty years, four wives, and a series of books (first in Russian and later in English) that correspond, more or less, to Nabokov...
...breezed through passport control. The customs officer cleared my first bag without giving me any trouble, and I thought I was free-on my way home to the U.S. Then he drew out a measuring stick and found that the inside of my second suitcase didn't correspond with the outside. I was invited to a little room where they ripped out the bottom of the suitcases and discovered my haul...
...situation, to the changing foreign and domestic conditions in which U.S. policy is being conceived and shaped . . . Before any shift to détente became possible, it was absolutely necessary that the U.S. begin to accept the idea that the earlier course of the cold war had ceased to correspond to its interests...