Word: driftful
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...later work is, above all, a fantasy, and as such it ranges about much more than the 10-minute-long Variations. Leaving its stormy rhetoric, it becomes pensive, then playful, and sprints away into the upper registers to drift off into what is marked "no tone." At another point a glissando emerges from the rattle motive to dive upon the melody below, swoop up again pursued by a line of single notes, and exhaust itself in a final upward surge...
...answer to part of the 'Why" question lies back in Dean Bundy's statement. If Harvard does not take an active interest along planned lines. If Harvard lets things drift and faces problems only when they become full-scale crises then Harvard will have to pay, in terms of money and of future expansion and certainly in terms of that beloved of the city planners, aesthetics. If the University does not take up the torch soon the Sullivans will be there first every time...
Leaving the mayor's home, Steve Kennedy called a midnight press conference, declared bitterly that he was quitting because of Wagner's "inertia, indecision and drift." He cleaned out his desk, patted his .38-cal. Police Special, and walked out of headquarters with his eyes glistening. The mayor was ready with a successor, an oldtime cop and Kennedy protégé with a fine record, Chief Inspector Michael J. Murphy, 47. Few of Kennedy's friends could fault Bob Wagner. Taking one consideration with another, he had been a long time in applying the kind...
...melts the surface of the earth. The sphere's age, measured by careful study of its radioactive decay, proved that it must be part of the fallout of the February test in the Sahara. Since the sphere was too big to hover in the air very long or drift very far, Dr. Kettlewell believes that his little moth acquired its radioactive particle before leaving Africa, carried it 1,500 miles to England...
...himself recently got a two-hour raking over from Kassem, who accused the Russians of acting "in bad faith" and "tying political strings to loans." The 26 factories that the Communist bloc had promised to build in Iraq were still on paper. Kassem himself seems content with the Westward drift of things. His press has been branding the local Communists "traitors" and "foreign agents...