Word: hummed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With that, he turned sharply right on the far side of University Hall and seemed to hurtle himself towards Sever. "Hum," thought Biff Bundie, as he quickened his pace behind the Indian, "he's trying to shake me from his trail. Fat chance...
...three important roles are solid, the skeleton of Peace Decorum is not. Walter Moses' music is uneven: "Wander Lust," some of his "Ballet" and, of course, "Razzle Dazzle" are just fine, but scarcely memorable or even nice to hum. Alan Lutkus' lyrics are competent, but often inane, and they don't follow Carter Wilson's book too closely...
Urban man lives with a hum always in his ears. During his working hours, he is subjected to the distant noise of traffic, the whistle of the air conditioner, the hum of the fluorescent lighting. At home, the washing machine and the dishwasher rumble, radios blare...
Thunderous Chirp. Far from being alarmed, acoustical engineers today are in favor of the low steady hum. "There should be an unobtrusive noise, constant and surflike," says Robert B. Newman, a partner in the Cambridge. Mass., acoustical engineering firm of Bolt, Beranek & Newman, Inc. Without it, the slightest sound can prove enormously distracting. Typical is the commuter who reads a book amid the accustomed clatter of the 5:42, yet is shaken out of bed when a robin chirps in the silence of a country morning...
What happens when one begins Children of Sanchez thinking, "Ho-hum, another anthropologist," is that after about five pages, one forgets all about concepts, and avidly enters into a gripping world of often unbearably real people. Yet while Lewis--I'm not sure purposely--redefines anthropology as dramatic novel, at the same time he continues in perhaps the most important ideological mainstream of anthropological thought: giving a voice, and dignity, to the backward and poverty-stricken peoples of the non-white world. An incomplete summary of the history of the discipline will serve to place Lewis' work in perspective...