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...increasingly complex tempos with frequent changes. The result is music composed of an initial theme, over which each member plays short phrases, or frills, over that theme, or a variation. The continued emphasis is on speed, and on ensemble playing: guitar-violin, or guitar-violin-piano, resulting in a fusion of musical minds that is spiritual. Above all, each member exploits the possibilities of his instrument to the fullest...

Author: By Frederick Boyd, | Title: Spirits in the Sky | 7/11/1972 | See Source »

...development may turn the Square into an ugly fusion of traffic jams, parking lots and tickey...

Author: By Mark C. Frazier, | Title: JFK Library: Future Shock in the Square | 6/15/1972 | See Source »

...Kennedy School of Government, and possible "related structures"--may prove to be the greatest blessing to the economic vitality of the Square in this century. But it doesn't assuage the fear that the ingredients of success may be ruined in the mixing, turning the Square into an ugly fusion of traffic jams, parking lots, and tickey-tac, thereby destroying the small stores and whatever remains of the Square's college-town atmosphere...

Author: By Mark C. Frazier, | Title: JFK Library: Future Shock in the Square | 6/15/1972 | See Source »

...FUSION. The ideal solution is to reproduce the sun's own process of joining atomic nuclei to produce clean, safe energy. The process, which also powers the hydrogen bomb, releases so much energy, and the hydrogen used as fuel is so abundant in sea water, that fusion could fill the world's electricity needs for millions of years. But the practical difficulties of confining nuclear particles in "bottles" of magnetic energy (at temperatures approaching 60 million degrees F.) are such that most experts do not foresee fusion working before 1990 at the earliest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Energy Crisis: Are We Running Out? | 6/12/1972 | See Source »

...will people accept the increasing intrusion of think tanks into the government? If the think tanks are allowed to become a constructive part of the policy-making process and if there is a fusion between analyst and decision-maker, the probability is that the public will accept it with eagerness. There are four reasons" (1) Elected officials remain responsible for their actions in their own minds and the minds of the public. A high-level official, being human, has no desire to cede authority to anyone else...

Author: By David J. Scheffer, | Title: Think Tanks: Public Power in Private Hands | 5/17/1972 | See Source »

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