Word: dynamos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Quarterback Peter Bernhardt's touchdown sparked the Kirkland dynamo, which shut out its second consecutive foe of the season. Skip Vacarello of Leverett paced several exciting drives, but never managed to cross the goal line...
...spreading a dozen notes over five minutes in the opening of his Fourth Symphony; to Schoenberg, trying to convince Mahler that a melody could be produced by passing one note around among several instruments' to Cage, who celebrates the esthetic of the suggestive-mundane, music has been a dynamo house, even if it seems lethargic from the outside. Musical history seems like a cycle of vituperation and eulogy. At the present time the vituperation is peculiarly stubborn and the eulogy almost theocratic. We see the spectacle of older people grappling with techniques of 1900, while the young are assimilating contemporary...
...Harvard's elite is no accident: many prestigious Harvard professors and administrators are deacons of the church of American empire. Their hands are bloody. The work they do ends in the murder of millions and the looting of the resources of the world. Official Harvard is a dynamo in the imperialist machine...
...Globe'schange has not, of course, occurred spontaneously. The principal engineer has been editor Tom Winship. Whipple, without a trace of simulated loyalty, calls him "the spark--the dynamo--that has really accomplished the change...
Research, in fact, has been the keystone of the company ever since 1847, when Werner Siemens founded a telegraphy workshop in Berlin. "The future of this factory," said Siemens, "depends upon its own inventions." Nineteen years later, he developed the modern electric dynamo; in 1928 the Siemens company built the first telex machine and still later, the first telex network...