Word: mold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...individuality. Eccentric rhythms, unusual and striking harmonics, surprises in melodic line: all of these fill the pages of his scores. The restless gaiety of the court made variety an essential ingredient in all art, but few succeeded as well as Purcell in pouring into this exacting mold their own genius. Pergolesi, in Italy fifty years later, was still struggling for artistic homogeneity. Incongruously juxtaposed in the "Stabat Mater" are passages of extreme spiritual content and passages which sound more than anything else like comic opera. Decades were to elapse before a style as unified in spirit as that of Purcell...
...ordinary metal casting, molten metal is poured into a mold, allowed to cool, then removed. After long experiment, several metallurgical manufacturers have devised a way to cast high-grade metal rods continuously-that is, in an endless strip, as newsprint is made. Molten metal is fed from a reservoir to a water-cooled tube. As the metal flows down and out of the tube, a water spray cools it so that it can be continuously withdrawn as a solid rod. The Industrial Bulletin of Arthur D. Little Inc. (Boston consultants) states that continuously cast rods are free of air cavities...
...Congress on April 10, 1790 and signed by President George Washington-set up a three-man patent board: the Secretaries of War and State and the Attorney General. Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson was also keeper of records. His staff was a part-time clerk. An inventor himself (a mold board for plows, revolving chair, combination stool and walking stick), Jefferson read every application that came in. First patent went to one Samuel Hopkins of Vermont for "making pot and pearl ashes." In those days a patent cost about $4. (Now it is $60 plus legal fees.) John Fitch paid...
Perhaps it is characteristic that one of them applied Aristotle's rules for tragedy to his criticism of "The Grapes of Wrath'. If may have been a little farfetched to say that Steinbeck's book did not fit the mold because it had neither the required beginning, middle, or end but it did not sound pedantic when he said...
...What a joy it is to compose music to a language of convention, almost of ritual, the very nature of which imposes a lofty dignity! One no longer feels dominated by the phrase, the literal meaning of the words. Cast in an immutable mold which adequately expresses their value, they do not require any further commentary. The text thus becomes purely phonetic material for the composer. He can dissect it at will and concentrate all his attention on its primary constituent element--that is to say, on the syllable. Was not this method of treating the text that...