Word: interplay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only about 30 students (including nine committee members) attended the meeting, those who did participated in thoughtful and measured debate, ranging from complaints about the language requirement to recommendations for distributional requirements. Ideas were thrown up in the air, caught and tossed around before settling to rest--a nice interplay of thoughts that one doesn't often see at the College on a large scale...
...Smithsonian paleobiologist Douglas Erwin warned his colleagues last week, it is dangerous to try to explain a complex calamity like the Permian extinction in simplistic terms. The Great Dying, Erwin believes, was produced by an interplay of many forces--"a tangled web rather than a single mechanism"--and if paleontologists and geologists want to sort out the puzzle, they must spend long hours in the field searching for further clues. Even after scientists reach a consensus about what caused the extinction, observes Renne, a central mystery will remain. What is it about life, he marvels, that enables it to rebound...
...created by the body-specifically by the brain. Utterly contrary to common sense, though, and to the evidence gathered from our own introspection, consciousness may be nothing more than an evanescent by-product of more mundane, wholly physical processes -- much as a rainbow is the result of the interplay of light and raindrops. Input from the senses clearly plays a part; so do body chemicals whose ebb and flow we experience as feelings and emotions. Memory, too, is involved, along with language-the way humans translate concepts into symbolic form...
...interplay between the press and politics will be the subject of a new journal to be published under the auspices of the Kennedy School's Shorenstein Barone Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy, University officials announced recently...
...Sonata's Adagio espressivo certainly captured a more intimate feeling, but the playing was emotionally unremarkable. The high point of the Beethoven came in the Scherzo. where Buswell's devil-may-care boldness struck a wonderful contrast to Levinson's filigreed lines. Here, the interplay of the instruments finally reached the same heights it had achieved in the Bartok...