Word: merely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...repelled his audiences with wild rhythms, brutal harmonies, and kaleidoscopic tone coloring of a kind they had never heard or imagined before. The Rite of Spring unleashed a cacophony of sound that set its first Paris audience to pummeling one another with fists and canes. But within a mere ten years all three works were becoming accepted in the contemporary musical language, and Stravinsky boldly moved on to a new, dry, precisely turned style-Pulcinella, Oedipus Rex, Apollon Musagetes-that had little relation to the earlier, gaudily splashed Russian effects...
Without visibly mounting blood pressure, the group adopted a new and greatly simplified code of ethics for doctors. Main departure from the old code was in brevity: instead of some 5,000 words, the new code sums up dos and don'ts in a mere 500. Dropped completely are former sections advising doctors on information for the public, patents and copyrights-and punctuality. Main emphasis, unchanged, is on service and integrity: "The principal objective of the medical profession is to render service to humanity with full respect for the dignity of man . . . The medical profession should safeguard the "public...
West's other work seems like mere tom-tomfoolery compared to the drumfire on the nerves in Miss Lonely hearts...
...adds that "a distinction in interest, but not in value, may come from basic education in the social sciences, but, contrary to some expectations, mere tion accomplished by Aquinas, who incorporated the systematic requirements of medieval metaphysics. It will, perhaps, be a translation as radical as that given Judaism by Jesus, or the Veda by Gotama...
Just why the department then felt compelled to expose students to a specimen from each period is extremely difficult to say. Since they could hardly expect to expose him to all of the literature written in English in a mere four years, it was clear enough to him that they were aiming at directed selection. But why it was not likely that he should discover more in selections chosen by himself on the grounds of personal preference, this was hard...