Word: dissects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...undergraduate social service work in the community. As many as 425 students have been working in settlement houses all over Boston under its direction, engaged in such activities as tutoring the Jamaica Negro Mothers' Club in Music, conducting hikes into the country, and showing school boys how to dissect frogs...
...undergraduate social service work in the community. As many as 425 students have been working in settlement houses all over Boston under its direction, engaged in such activities as tutoring the Jamaica Negro Mothers' Club in Music, conducting hikes into the country, and showing school boys how to dissect frogs...
...which imposes a lofty dignity! One no longer feels dominated by the phrase, the literal meaning of the words. Cast in an immutable mold which adequately expresses their value, they do not require any further commentary. The text thus becomes purely phonetic material for the composer. He can dissect it at will and concentrate all his attention on its primary constituent element--that is to say, on the syllable. Was not this method of treating the text that of the old masters of the austere style? This, too, has for centuries been the Church's attitude towards music...
Afterwards the pupils went downstairs to the boiler room, there quietly watched a science teacher dissect Fat Stuff. They saw where bacon, ham and pork chops come from, saw Fat Stuff's stomach, lungs, liver, heart. In a few days any pupils who have the appetite for it will be able to eat Fat Stuff in the school cafeteria...