Word: raines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rhythm was present only as a sort of prose pulse, often interrupted for long, breathless silences. Harmony was so spare and skeletal that the few familiar chords struck were as pleasantly refreshing as rain on a barn roof. Melody's status slumped so badly that it became only an intermission joke-"Sing me that nice part of the thing we just heard." But most of all, precise composition yielded to aleatory music-the music of chance, in which performers are free to improvise with little control beyond their own musicality. In all the baffling proceedings, Berberian and Roman Flutist...
...exchange have risen 80% in three years. Most often the amateurs lose, but the tales of what might have been keep them coming back like horserace fans after a daily-double killing. They were also betting last week that the troubles in Malaysia would send rubber futures climbing, that rain and winds in the Midwest would hurt the soybean harvest, and that the world shortages that sent sugar soaring earlier this year would do it again...
While Math. 11 struggles with fluxions and currents, the real fluxes and currents across membranes undergo study in Biophysics 203a. The aristocrat of nine o'clock classes is, however, Anthro. 117a: Oliver's "Oceania: Archeology and Ethnology" is a thinly disguised study of Harvard Square after a long rain...
Hundreds of Harvard students sat outside through the rain and cold of Friday night to section for limited-enrollment Nat Sci 6 the next morning, Seasoned observers, however, doubted the extent of their dedication science. Last spring William W. Howells '30 predicted his new lower-level course would "attract all the least energentic minds in the University...
...contained an unusual amount of caesium 137. After that, the story unfolded with dangerous logic. The caribou's winter food is largely lichens, a primitive plant that has no roots but gets its moisture and nutrients entirely from the air. Its spongy tissues soak up the scant Arctic rain like blotting paper and retain a large part of it. The fallout that is carried down by the rain is retained too. Instead of mixing harmlessly with the soil, it goes into the stomachs of caribou and becomes part of their bones and flesh. When Eskimos eat the caribou, they...