Word: resoundingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...burst had a prosaic beginning : Bertoia was simply trying to find a way of making metal wires spring from a core, like petals from a flower or rays from the sun. In other pieces Bertoia clusters metal rods that stand straight up like bronze-colored grass and, when touched, resound like tiny organ pipes. In these the secret of Bertoia's work comes clear. "In my walks home," says he in his whitewashed garage-studio near his farm in Bally, Pa., "I pass by wheat fields swaying in the breeze and can hear the rustling. Sculpture comes alive when...
...model of how an artist "should defend his views without fear of falling out with his contemporaries or other disapproval, so long as he is convinced that his word is right, so long as he is convinced that his cause is sacred!" In ringing tones, whose echoes would surely resound in Nikita Khrushchev's office, Chukovsky concluded: "Farewell, dear Boris Leonidovich, thank you from all of us. We owe you a large and unpaid debt." So did the world, for the sum total of Pasternak's writing is a cry of joy at the wonder of life...
...Poet's Grave. As Chukovsky stepped down from the mound, several young men pushed through the crowd. One proclaimed: "Over the poet's open grave his verses should resound," and began a recitation. Another said something about an "unpublished book," and there were uneasy glances and scattered cries of "For shame!" The coffin was sealed and lowered into the grave and a symbolic pinch of dirt thrown...
...parts. The universities are jammed, but students must often sell their blood to pay tuition and may commit suicide if they fail to get a job on graduation. The cities blaze with neon lights, teen-age girls in pony tails squeal their delight in "rockabilly" singers, and the streets resound to jukebox music and the clatter of pachinko (pinball) machines. But in most of Japan, marriages are still arranged by traditional matchmakers, business deals are still settled in geisha houses, and wives still greet their husbands on hands and knees. Laments a young sculptor: "It is impossible...