Word: elements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years of life, the organization, under various names, has been the key element in the effort to establish a system of Latin American international law. It wrote a declaration of human rights before the U.N. got around to it, organized a regional defense pact two years ahead of NATO, and above all has given high status to the idea of community in the Western Hemisphere...
According to Krenek serial music is an attempt to reinject a personal element into composition. The composer of serial music predetermines the organization of sound material arbitrarily, while the non-serial composer is restricted by the demands of the conventional harmonic structure, he explained...
...sounds completely random," he said, following the tape, "but it is actually highly structured." The listener has difficulty in orienting himself because there is no tempo in the conventional sense, he explained; rather, there are six different speed zones which are determined by a Fibonacci series, in which each element is the sum of the two proceeding...
...there were many who, spurred on by crooked politicians and lawmen, raped, robbed and generally browbeat decent citizens. I am a descendant of one of the original Klansmen and have heard of these things all my life. The decent, law-abiding Negro was never set upon-only the criminal element. I am not saying that the Klan has never made a mistake. There are mistakes made in the greatest organizations and movements. I do say that Klansmen were right in what they did at the time...
...waited upon by crisp, young, white-shirted men who move softly among them like priests serving in a shrine, the computers go about their work quietly and, for the most part, unseen by the public. Popping up across the U.S. like slab-sided mushrooms, they are the fastest growing element in the technical arsenal of the world's most technologized nation. In 1951 there were fewer than 100 computers in operation in the U.S.; today 22,500 computers stand in offices and factories, schools and laboratories-four times as many as all the computers that exist elsewhere...