Word: minutest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from one-line revelations about our most major and complex artists (e.g., that Bob Dylan has always been at heart a rock and roll singer who started out in folk merely because there were no other options open to him in his early years) to finicky discoveries about the minutest details (e.g., that the Sergeant Pepper concept of a album as an integrated whole "can be traced back to the end of Between the Buttons"). And, remarkably, these multifarious insights are not stranded and left to fend for themselves in a mass of prose but, in Williams' writings, are usually...
...replace the lingering ideal of harmony-using as much of it as he can for his own devices-with a modern, dynamic system of dialectic struggle. In trying to accomplish this, he must cope with every ancient phase of Chinese mentality, from its basic view of man to the minutest daily practices. The traditional Chinese view of the universe does not, as in the West, see a struggle between good and evil. The famous principles of Yin and Yang imply an alternate cosmic rhythm but not a struggle. Nor is there a relationship of struggle-or love or dialogue-between...
Closed-circuit TV lenses are also built into the light fixture over each operating table and connected with the teaching and seminar rooms. Watching with the aid of television's magnifying eye, an unlimited number of students will be able to follow each operation in minutest detail, even in an operating area only an eighth of an inch across...
...testosterone. But the Barr-negative patients who took the hormone survived, on the average, a much shorter time. A Vienna study of 201 patients produced similar results. But the cautious German and Austrian researchers still insist that it will take a thousand or more cases, studied for years in minutest detail, to show whether their Barr-body theory is correct...
...another-are common, so that subjects "hear" colors or "smell" music. Ideas become visible. Thought and emotion are inseparable. Memory is oddly affected: the ability to repeat a set of numbers backward, or do simple tests, is grossly impaired, but long-ago events may be recalled accurately in minutest detail...