Word: echoes
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...portrait of Robert Kennedy by Artist Louis Glanzman is a masterpiece of mood. It not only projects the exhaustion and fatalism of one man, but it seems also to echo the look of a nation engulfed in tragic sorrow, angry disillusionment and political despair...
...like birds with golden wings the measured bell notes fly outward and upward, passing with clear and faint regret the ultimate slender rush of cross and spire; and how like the plummet lark the echo, singing, falls...
...naps. I was scrupulous about meditating before, not after dinner, I did not try to force any particular feeling; and I "came out" of meditation slowly--three pointers Jarvis gave us for best results. The first two weeks were really a new experience. When I meditated, the echo of my mantra vibrated through my consciousness; my limbs felt heavy and deliciously drugged, while my mind remained alert. Emerging from meditation was akin to emerging from deep sleep, except that when my body slept my brain frolicked...
...degree of nervousness, Buswell also had a surprising number of lapses of bow control, with a tendency toward a glassy tone whenever he wanted to play softly. On the surer grounds of the more aggressive rapid movements, his playing was marred only by his arbitrary choices of moment for echo effects, a habit detrimental to the continuity of Bach's long, carefully contoured phrases...
...there is an all-important difference between student advice and student control. If students could dictate the hiring and firing of professors, they would tend to select those with whom they agree-and fall into an echo chamber. Latin American students have considerable control over many universities, and the consequence is chaos and inferior education. A university is not a democracy and cannot become one without degenerating into anarchy. At a conference on "Students and Society" at California's Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions last year, the president of the student body of St. Louis' Washington...