Word: modale
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Three current advocates renovate it by applying a technique known as modal logic: Plantinga; Unitarian Charles Hartshorne, a follower of Alfred North Whitehead's "process" philosophy, now retired from the University of Texas; and Roman Catholic Layman James F. Ross of the University of Pennsylvania...
...Mozart Requiem, Karajan opted convincingly for a large symphonic approach, sweeping the music along with crisp rhythms and an ingenious succession of tempos. Bruckner's Te Deum has a peculiarly spare, even austere ring; Karajan caught that quality by the simple expedient of exposing all its modal harmonies and laying out its violent cross-rhythms firmly and precisely. Best of all perhaps was the Beethoven Ninth. This was one of those uncommon moments in which the strictest adherence to the letter of the score had a liberating effect. Rarely has the scherzo been taken at such a whirlwind pace...
...course, Carter (Cot-tuh? Car-tuh?) simply does not use the "good ole boy" phraseology; his speech is far too aristocratic for that. Even in casual conversation, he is not likely to fall into what linguists call the double modal-"might could" or "might ought." Nor can he be expected to employ another familiar Deep South form, the perfective done, as in "he done did it." Between now and November, moreover, his audiences are not apt to hear him describe his opponent, as some Plains folk might, as "a sorry piece of plunder" or threaten to "knock the bark...
...culturally hip American or European what ongaku means, and he will reply that it is the Japanese word for music. He will no doubt be thinking of the silken flutter of the 13-stringed koto or the modal mysteries of the pentatonic scale. Ask a Japanese, and he will tell you that ongaku means Beethoven, Mozart, Western-style symphony orchestras and, last week most of all, the Metropolitan Opera of New York...
...include those who are passengers and those who are in rental cars. These estimates were derived by segregating the market segments on a monthly basis and origin basis and applying a mode split to the various market segments; i.e., SMSA residents, including school children in groups, will have a modal split of 35.4 per cent automobile, 22.5 per cent non-scheduled bus and 6.5 per cent other mode. It is estimated that visitors to the SMSA will have an arrival pattern to the facility of 73 per cent by automobile, 10 per cent by public transportation, 15 per cent...