Word: peering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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against the hump of waitresses I peer...
...echelons of electronic composers, which include America's Vladimir Ussachevsky and Milton Babbitt, consider him the most inventive. French Composer Pierre Boulez, who is himself pretty handy with a modulator, says flatly that "Stockhausen is the greatest living composer, and the only one whom I recognize as my peer." Stockhausen tends to agree. Aggressively indifferent to criticism, he is interested only in exploring every corner of the aural landscape. He has completely done away with traditional music forms, conceives his works instead in terms of "moments" or time lapses that are carefully structured but follow no conventional rhythmic pattern...
...after that luncheon the ranking State Department East Asian man would invite Fairbank, as the most respected China historian in the country, to advise the U.S. Government on new trouble in Kiangsi and elsewhere. His byline would appear in seven national magazines and his lined, gently smirking face would peer out from the T.V. screen on two networks...
...pinned down by a temperature inversion, and was steadily thickened by the soot and smoke of the coal-burning city. Within three days, the air was so black that Londoners could see no more than a yard ahead. Drivers were forced to leave cars and buses to peer closely at street signs to find out where they were. Policemen strapped on respiratory masks. The Manchester Guardian reported that London's midday sun "hung sulkily in the dirty sky with no more radiance than an unlit Chinese lantern...
From David's enrollment we enter almost immediately, and dwell almost entirely, in his tortured fantasies of Oedipal father-hatred, which becomes also a peer-group-impressed horror of his Jewish ancestry. He dreams of wrestling for his school against the School for the Hebrew Blind. His opponent turns into his father...