Word: flow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wants to create a reservoir about 40 miles north of New York City by building a series of dikes around a natural basin near the Hudson River. It plans to pump water from the river into the reservoir during periods of low electrical demand and then allow it to flow back into the river when demand is high. On its way down, the water would drive large electric generators...
SCHUBERT: SYMPHONY NO. 9 (Deutsche Grammophon). Robert Schumann called it the "symphony of heavenly length," and Karl Böhm and the Berlin Philharmonic just let it flow. There is no feeling of thrust; the rhythmic divisions are as natural as breathing, and Schubert's last and greatest symphony emerges clear, bright and grandly melodious...
...land, built roads and hospitals, and began a program to resettle 500,000 Bolivians from the barren plateau to the more fertile valleys. A firm friend of the U.S., he gave ardent support to the Alliance for Progress, created so favorable an economic climate that foreign capital began to flow in, bringing a modest boom...
...relatively simple operation in which a piece is cut out of the vas deferens, the duct through which male spermatozoa flow from the testes. It causes no change in the physiology of the sex act, merely ensuring that there is no sperm in the male ejaculation...
...classmate in The Bronx's prestigious De Witt Clinton High School) to plan a work that would "expose the corruption in American life. I am fascinated by decadent faces." Baldwin's brief text is oddly irrelevant, obviously hasty, too often drawn on by his sheer flow of language into shrill overstatement: "No one is happy here." The 54 Avedon photographs are something else again: a chilling, engrossing display of ferocity...