Word: fragmentism
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There are many serious flaws in the Leonard report. Unlike the original 1969 prospectus for the DuBois Institute, the Leonard report does not provide for any connection between the Institute and the Afro Department, which would fragment the growth of Afro-American studies at this university. It calls for a DuBois Institute that would be isolated from students, eliminating plans for summer research grants for students and taking students off the Board that would oversee the Institute. It eliminates any reference to offering positions as Visiting Fellows to political activists...
...silver threads. Others, seen as emblems of monarchical privilege, were simply destroyed. The Met's own Unicorn tapestries were taken by peasants and used to wrap potatoes. Even the Angers Apocalypse served as burlap to insulate orange trees and stuff cracks in walls. This exhibition is only a fragment of what Europe lost...
...unique and poignant fragment for history. A President who stands in clear and imminent danger of impeachment faced the members of the House who may within weeks become his inquisitors and the Senators who may then have to decide whether he has been guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors and must therefore be removed from office. Once again, drawing upon a resilient inner reserve of stamina, an embattled Richard Nixon rose to the challenge. Although his formal text was unremarkable, his manner was controlled, his delivery forceful, and his attitude unyielding. He looked healthier than he has in months...
...Haven, Conn., antiquarian bookseller named Laurence Witten purchased the map, which had been bound with a 13th century narrative of a Central Asian voyage, from a European dealer in 1957. Later Witten was given a fragment of a medieval encyclopedia that appeared to be written in the same hand as the narrative. Wormholes for all three documents-map, fragment and narrative-matched perfectly. Convinced of the map's authenticity, Witten in 1959 sold all three, reportedly for nearly $ 1 million, to an anonymous buyer, who in turn donated them to Yale. There, scholars determined that the map had been...
...that the 18-minute section of tape "probably contained speech originally." The evidence for this is that the scientists found three tiny "windows" on the tape?minute sections in which the buzz did not appear. Although undetectable by an untrained ear, they found in each of the windows "a fragment of speechlike sound lasting less than one second." These sections apparently were missed by the erase head in the multiple manipulations of whoever tampered with the tape. Bolt explained that the assumption that speech underlies the entire buzz is basically "a statistical argument." There are only three breaks...