Word: detective
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more years, serialism and atonality have never become a common "spoken" language. He doubts that they ever will. "Atonal music," he says flatly, "is essentially pessimistic. It is incapable of expressing joy or humor." Menotti is correct about the joylessness of atonality. What he has failed to detect is the vast freedom that atonality has given certain contemporary composers who care about exploring the anxious mind and soul of modern...
...drafting and the final polishing continued, Kissinger drove his staff with all the harshness of a plantation overseer. It was easy to detect which members of his staff had worked on the final drafts, Kissinger says. "They had maniacal expressions on their faces." As the deadline for the final draft approached, Kissinger kept telephoning his men with last-minute thoughts. Exasperated, they finally stopped taking his calls so that they could complete their work...
...looked back and saw "a big black funnel, about 75 yds. wide at the ground, and maybe 500 ft. high." The twister passed over his car, bouncing it up and down a few times; then everything went calm. "Everything seemed to be in slow motion," he says. "I could detect all sorts of things swirling around me. At one point I thought I saw a human body fly past. I could see right through the storm. I suddenly realized I was in the eye of the storm...
Blue is used for crop destruction primarily, acting very effectively against grasses and rice. Blue contains derivatives of arsenic compounds, and the HAC is now working out laboratory tests which should be able to detect traces of these compounds in human hair; that way, the interaction of the herbicides with the human food chain should be clarified, and some of the long-lasting effects of the herbicides may become known...
When one attends a Chekhov play, one does not, strictly speaking, go to the theater. One drops in on life. No stethoscope is needed to detect the heartbeat of existence. Chekhov may be the best imaginable argument for a playwright's having some other occupation...