Word: formless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drummer, a bass guitar, lead guitar, and a singer, but they produce a complex, brutal, hard sound. People go to their concerts to try to see how they make all those noises with so few instruments. Its hard to describe, but the breaks in their sound awfully formless and abstract, but deep down they consist of just a hard drum beat, a loud bass, and Townshend's amazing chorded rhythm or lead guitar. They use virtually no sophisticated recording tricks. I guess the thing is that they have retained all of the normal apparatus of a regular old rock...
...received Christian tradition should so readily accept the assurances of assorted spiritualists that there are cats in the afterlife and that husbands and wives will experience a new kind of nonsexual spiritual relationship. As for the dead Jim, he appears in the book to be so vague and formless as to seem nothing more than a loving father's wish fulfillment...
...Trout, Bowen's eighth novel, is typical of her writing and unlike anything else being published today. Once more the author concerns herself with the domination of the strong by the weak; "they have such incredible staying power," one character laments. Eva is the formless, feckless person who flouts the schemes and designs of subtler minds. At 25, she is an heiress. Her mother died in a plane crash; her father, a homosexual tycoon, was a suicide. Her guardian was her father's partner in business and in bed. He alternately tries to manipulate her for her money...
...that somewhere between 20 and 25 per cent of all black children in central Alabama suffer brain damage by the time they are five years old because of protein deficiency. Adult Negroes show the effect of another kind of malnutrition. A diet based on fat and carbohydrate produces bloated, formless women, and men who die twice as often of heart disease as whites...
...areas be supervised? When would the U.S. know that it was safe or opportune to begin withdrawing troops, and how many to retain in South Viet Nam? It would be splendid, of course, to have clear-cut answers to such questions. But the war itself has been messy and formless, and the from-the-ground-up solution might reflect Vietnamese realities to a much greater extent than the alternatives. At this juncture, it is difficult to imagine the Thieu government or the Communists agreeing to work together in a larger political process. One of the two might...