Word: layered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...instruments are not electronically amplified, but they produce a moaning tumult of sound that is roughly Lasry-Baschet's idea of what modern music should be. "Conceptions aren't linear any more," says Composer Lasry. "Not like an onion, where you can peel off one orderly layer after the other. Our search is nothing but an attempt to get through music what we hear in life...
...analogies as effortlessly as the multiplication tables. Before long, his tutor recalled, Empson was plucking meanings from poems "like rabbits out of a hat." He was still only 24 when he published Seven Types of Ambiguity, which examined microscopically not only Shakespeare, but also much of English poetry, uncovering layer after layer of ambiguity in works that had been considered perfectly clear. Not even the simplest lines escaped Empson's scrutiny. After reading Lovelace's lines, "Stone walls do not a prison make/ Nor iron bars a cage," Empson debated for a page whether walls...
...Yunque for years, it was the patches of wild morning-glories growing there that piqued Professor Ellis. Since the flower grew nowhere else around, she took it as an indication that the soil beneath was different in some way. Her students attacked the spot, and soon struck a layer of adobe. As the surface dirt was removed, more and more walls appeared, revealing the remains of a 25-room pueblo...
...Using a local anesthetic, he saws out a dime-sized piece of the skull, then inserts a three-in-one tube, only 2 mm. (less than 1½ in.) in diameter. The tube slips painlessly through the insensitive brain to the deep-lying thalamus. The tube's outer layer is a vacuum insulator; the innermost bore carries liquid nitrogen supplied at -196° C.; the middle layer is for warmed and gaseous nitrogen to escape...
Nine years ago Nathan M. Pusey came to Harvard from Lawrence College in Appleton, Wisconsin, to become President of an enormous institution built on layer after layer of sedimented traditions. A slow and delicate play of subterranean forces had brought it to its current stature, a vast and complex machinery that it would be foolish to meddle with too deeply. The University might change, but it would have to change more through a process of natural evolution than through administrative decisions initiating and guiding change...