Word: keerful
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Spend a night in Headwaters and it's easy to see why protesters have flooded into these woods to stop the loggers. Wake before dawn to hear the high-pitched keer of marbled murrelets, the rare, threatened seabirds that nest only in the top of old-growth redwoods. Vast, dark shapes begin to form: the trunks of enormous redwoods and Douglas firs rising as if to hold up the sky. Greens nationwide had hoped for a pact that would have spared some 60,000 acres--all six ancient groves, and the partly logged land between--as habitat for spotted owls...
...when he started, and 3 a.m., with a light rain falling, when he set up his tent. Two hours later, before first light, Thron was standing outside the tent, rain running down the back of his neck. After perhaps five minutes, he heard a short, musical, descending call -- the "keer" of a marbled murrelet. Huge, dark shapes began to coalesce in the lightening gray: the enormous trunks of redwoods and Douglas firs. By full light, Thron had tallied 23 calls from murrelets. In this April nesting season, these smallish, fast-flying seabirds trade chores in a quick exchange at dawn...
...reflect on the decline of Western monisms into a congeries of mercanto-ecclesiastical hoaxes. This work could well be the last great Mass ever written. The Society's performance possessed a certain Antarctic charm completely devoid of devotional feeling, but was plunged into obliquy by mispronunciation in the Kyrie (Keer-eiyeh) and the sinusoidal vibrato of the soprano and alto soloists in the Gloria. The choir plodded through the long Credo with sacerdotal vindictiveness but decided to clear up its wooly tone for the exquisite Sanctus. It was on the whole a bloodless performance of an intensely religious work...
Pusey warns of the dangers of the modern "multiversity" whose power Kerr's book glories in. While Keer seems fascinated by the size and social influence that America's great universities have achieved, Pusey is understandably humble about the problems that such bigness poses...
...Walter Keer, of the Herald Tribune, found it "an anti-feminist demonstration scored for in bugles, toy drums, and kazoos." He thought Kopit "slavishly indebted to his predecessors in the Theatre of the Absurd," but said he "is easily articulate, sometimes graceful even, and the mists that drift by have a way of taking what may be their most natural and frightening bodily shape." Kerr was ecstatic about the performers...