Word: inventive
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Baffle-Gab Theology Sir: Re your Baffle-Gab Thesaurus [Sept. 13], you failed to note that the bureaucrat selecting 257, "systematized logistical projection," would undoubtedly also feel compelled to invent a suitable acronym for his invention: in this case, SLOP...
...arching with a tambourine. Beck does more--a rich screeching, waves of unearthly sound over and over, soulful wails. The fired crowd howls for more. Somebody shouts for 'Train' which is what the Yardbirds were doing in 'Blow-Up'. Beck looks at Waller taking up the challenge and they invent a melody to be called from now on 'Train'. The sound of the tracks on wheels, the howl of the whistle, the engine, and the train and its heavy coaches...all on guitar, drums and bass. The drums go quiet, the train chugs to a start. Beck blares once, twice...
Degas did not invent the monotype, but he used it and developed it to a far greater extent than any artist before him, and possibly since him. Briefly, it is a process in which greasy ink is applied to a plate and wiped away with rags and/or blunt and sharp instruments (dark field manner), or one in which one draws with the ink on the plate (light field manner). The paper is then run through a press with the plate. But unlike the output of other graphic media, only a few impressions at most are obtainable. Also unlike most other...
...management level they are on, too limited to the manipulation of the great technocracy; business involves too much application and too little creative thinking. They feel that the role of manager will not give them rewards in line with their intellectual abilities, that they will not be free to invent and discover. In short, business is not, in their opinion, in line with the way the college has taught them to think...
...Mayor were really prepared to innovate and invent, he would at once see that the poor white communities of Boston have many of the same difficulties as the black communities. There is no reason he could not help a solid but poor Irish neighborhood develop its own community controlled services and enterprises at the same time a black neighborhood is doing...