Word: irregularly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Irregular closing of the polls, an abandoned ballot box, and unclear campaign procedure provoked charges yesterday of misconduct in the recent RGA elections...
...limits of standard rhythms, harmonies and tonality, Coleman's music is a constant quest for new freedom of expression, a reaching out into the uncharted universe of sound. The effect is a kind of stream-of-consciousness music, an unchained melody of jagged cries, urgent bleats and halting, irregular leaps, played to the splintered cross rhythms of his sidemen. Coleman's genius is that, like an abstract painter, he is able to impose a connecting pattern on an elusive free form. When it works, it is the most exciting music being played in jazz today...
...humored parody of free verse with a perfectly serious joke: "But I desist for want of knowing where to cut my lines unhokuspokusly." He wrote to John Cournos, an unsuccessful novelist: "There are the very regular, pre-established accent and measure of blank verse; and there are the very irregular accent and measure of speaking intonation. I am never more pleased than when I can get these two into strained relation. I like to drag and break the intonation across the metre as waves first comb and then break stumbling on the shingle. That...
...Justice, Order, Unity, Perfection," Adams wrote. "He could not be human and imperfect. The Mother alone was human, imperfect and could love. The Mother alone could represent whatever was not Unity; whatever was irregular, exceptional, outlawed; and this was the whole human race." In contrast to the 12th century, the current times seemed increasingly bleak, and in The Education of Henry Adams, he argued that the dynamo had replaced the Virgin as an object of faith...
...poetry in the Advocate is consistent--it lacks consistency in rhyme, meter, or form. In fact, poetry is not really the proper word for most selections; abbreviated prose arranged in irregular patterns would be a more appropriate description. For some reason, most Advocate poets feel that poetry is the least demanding art, that traditional techniques and discipline are of little importance in their craft...