Word: murmur
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leaves her husband, an insurance exec, and her children for a stay at Illyria, a 500-acre arts preserve where writers, musicians, painters and sculptors create in secluded studios beneath hemlocks and pines. Tap-tap, tinkle-tinkle, scrape-scrape go the creative artists. Presumably, the hemlocks and pines murmur...
...freely stating one's convictions and opinions. For this, he was terribly hated by those who believe that people exist to create a backdrop for leaders, to applaud and shout 'hurrah' for them, to believe in them blindly, to pray for them, to endure without murmur all scorn of them selves and to quack with pleasure when into his trough they pour more and richer fodder than into the other troughs...
Without a murmur of dissent, RUS made a resolution yesterday to match Harvard's parietal extension to 72 hours per week. Unanimous approval is expected at next Thursday's meeting...
...heart was still beating. One hour and 25 minutes later, the heart stopped, and two surgical teams went to work. Temporarily kept warm by artificially circulated blood, then quickly sutured into place, the new heart began beating immediately without the usual electrical shock. "Silence," said Zerbini, as a murmur of astonishment swept the room, and he proceeded to sew up his patient's chest...
...prettified, philosophic where FitzGerald is sententious. His austere tone evokes a more troubled, yearning Omar whose tippling is a metaphor for religious mysticism. Yet, surprisingly for a poet of his skill and grace, Graves often lapses into ungainly syntax, primly avoids rhymes, and altogether misses the colorful, melodious murmur that so entrances the ear and emotions in FitzGerald. He may be deliberately exercising his classical restraint or making an overzealous try for accuracy. In any case, he stiffens the flow of the poem. Here is one of FitzGerald's best-known quatrains...