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...Pink, orange, purple, and green clouds drift through the skies over Boston. Small ones cruise down to the Government Center, zoom around City Hall, and leave towards...
When it comes to Debussy's own compositions, most interpreters stress the dream more than the senses. They see Debussy's rejection of the robust rhetoric of 19th century Romantic music as part of a drift into a fantasy world. They render his refined, precisely shaded instrumental effects as the perpetual murmuring of a soul in reverie. At best, this approach makes Debussy into an intriguing original of French music. At worst, it produces a kind of clair de lunacy: conductors seem to be using a stick of incense rather than a baton, and listeners are enveloped...
...glance at the map: the earth's continents can be made to fit together like parts of a giant jigsaw puzzle. Yet for years most scientists stoutly resisted the conclusion that some time in the remote past, the earth's land masses began splitting up and drifting apart-a theory known as "continental drift." Sheer nonsense, they insisted. No known forces could possibly have propelled huge continents across the earth's dense, basaltic crust...
...making their case for continental drift, scientists used some obvious evidence: geological strata in South America that matched those of West Africa in areas where the continents might have been joined; fossils of plants and animals from one continent that were identical to those on another, even though they are separated by thousands of miles of ocean. Just off Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf, for example, an Ohio State University expedition recently discovered the fossilized bones of a hippopotamus-like reptile called Lystro-saurus that had been thought to live only in prehistoric South Africa and Asia...
...ocean ridges. Millions of years and thousands of miles later, the moving lithosphere plunges back into the earth, carrying its sediment with it and forming the deep ocean trenches found at the edge of continents. Hess's theory at last had provided a workable mechanism needed by continental-drift theorists. It was the sea floor itself that moved. Like giant conveyor belts, the ocean bottoms transported the earth's huge land masses on top of them and spread them apart...