Word: organizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Samuel Beckett pieces at a late date, The Berlin Requiem is a series of seven songs devoid of light, hope, and in the end life itself. It is a work of music, really, not theater at all. Weill's orchestration turns the woodwind section into a mock organ, coldly pealing in the face of death...
...with I'm the Man, the songs on Beat Crazy form an almost unbroken whole; a tune hardly has the chance to fade before another sneaks in. He perfects his delivery on "One to One". The ballad begins with a single organ chord, grows into a piano piece on loss of individuality, and recedes to its original chord. Thus, without breaking his train of musical thought, Jackson draws us into his musical continuum...
...built a machine that would automatically construct patterns of sound according to the laws he'd uncovered. He had banks of oscillators and mixers--in fact, he modified an ordinary electronic organ for this part of the apparatus--which were controlled by his composing machine...
...play the Science Center like an organ," Frederick H. Abernathy, McKay Professor of Mechanical Engineering, says when describing the vast blower system that pumps air in and out of the eight-year-old building. One of the most inefficient of the 175 or so buildings under the jurisdiction of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Science Center is the youngest of what Abernathy and his team of efficiency investigators like to call "the Big Four": the Faculty buildings that consume--and waste--the most energy each year...
...Republican Party in those days was not entirely speechless either. Connoisseurs of the genre remember the sublimely fogbound organ tones of Illinois' Everett McKinley Dirksen. In his early career, writes Biographer Neil MacNeil, Dirksen "bellowed his speeches in a mongrel mix of grand opera and hog calling." Over the years, he developed a style of infinitely subtle fustian, whose effect can still be remotely approximated by sipping twelve-year-old bourbon, straight, while reading Dickens aloud, in a sort of sepulchral purr. Would he criticize an erring colleague? someone would ask. "I shall invoke upon him every condign imprecation...