Word: fuse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...beginning of the issue are clearly intended to be the Advocate's star turn, show a smoother, firmer, and less meandering use of language than Leubdorf's. But here too one finds the same awkward and acutely self conscious toying with metaphysics. One poem she begins: "The numbered summers fuse to form a tense,/Past-present: separate identities/Abandoned on the beach..."; another "A small departure will elude excuse,/The implication of its vagrancy/Impugn the settlement of old abuse/That makes of larger vice good company." Mrs. Barker presents these dry conundrums as miracles of perception that the rest of the poems will...
...Special Forces, who are all volunteers, all former paratroopers. Their elite status is marked by a bright green beret with a badge bearing crossed arrows and knife blade, and the legend De Oppresso Liber-roughly, To Liberate from Oppression. It is General Harkins' demanding job to fuse these few thousand experts with the willing but incompletely trained armed forces of South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem-170,000 regulars, 68,000 Civil Guard troops, and 70,000 Self-Defense Forces...
...sustaining so charged an atmosphere seriously complicates the form of a piece. Two important meloes, both rich in very tasteful nostalgia, suddenly become boisterous and frenzied, and these transformations fuse effective relations to the themes. Moreover, the raucous passages are too often static, and end up seeming like mere busy work. The performance, however, somewhat remedied this defect by giving one melody a meater internal variety...
...vocal ensemble does the underlying, steeled precision rise to the surface. She tapers and snubs the end of each phrase, each musical sentence. When one of the inner voices in the small vocal ensemble enters, she clears the air for it as if doing the breast-stroke. Like a fuse, she acts immediately in the moment of need; otherwise the music goes by itself--meaning, of course, that she is devilishly demanding at rehearsals...
...political landscape overnight, and permanently entrench the Democratic Party. It was far from that. Without setting forth any guidelines for action, it simply gave federal courts the right to hear cases involving state political apportionment. As such, it was less a bombshell than a slow-burning time fuse...