Word: layering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although only a thin layer of ice remained on the river, Laura J. Walther '63 wandered onto the ice until she fell through 20 feet from shore. Her date dashed across the ice only to fall through himself. Earl L. Holloway '63 and James J. Combs '63 led the rescue effort by crawling on their stomachs and using a lacrosse stick...
...Will come/ Between our flesh/ Our love"). Other standouts: a triumphant final sextet celebrating the "lesson of love," and the heroine's sprightly address to a mirror to variations of Come, Come, Ye Saints. The opera's weakness is its sameness of tone, its tendency to pile layer upon layer of melody, its failure to etch a real musical profile. Deseret has the musical makings for half a dozen operas but the ideas for scarcely...
...youth service program, according a Berg, must concentrate on the schools rather than on construction or manual labor. Africa needs "teachers, not doers," he emphasized, and the secondary schools, which provide the "crucial layer of people with intermediate skills," are the great bottleneck in the continent's development...
...ragged rectangle the size of Texas and Oklahoma combined. Just behind the beach, guarded by a great green mangrove wall, lie sweltering swamps-and the mosquitoes whose deadly bite kept white men from settling Nigeria as they did Algeria, Kenya and the Rhodesias.* Beyond the swamps is the thick layer of tangled rain forest, where the natives pick cocoa pods for the world's chocolate factories and gather oil palms for the big soap firms. Then comes the undulating grass country, rising in the north to the crusty, arid, mile-high floor and then to the hot Sahara...
...curtains--all the same shade of gold) at approximately the same time; those of us to the west hibernate in the afternoon because of the same windows and curtains; all of us inhabit cells which are precisely the same size, and our bathrooms are situated one under the other, layer after layer. This, I submit, is mass culture--unmitigated, a monumental exercise in poor taste...