Word: rhythm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tragic figure, lost "in the ashes of the old consuming conflict, in the pathos of learned agonies spent in a footless cause." The author also brings rich life to less dramatic episodes: his long, detailed accounts of the journeys over trackless desert and plateau develop a hypnotic rhythm of their own. Even minor ecclesiastical skirmishes are brilliantly employed-Lamy's exasperation with Vatican bureaucracy simultaneously reveals his ego and his humility: "The Roman piano, piano does not suit the bishop of the Navajos...
...tightly constricted passageway of a tiny vein. But one scene, more than any other, suggests how far science must go before it fully understands the activities it has recorded. In this sequence, cells from the heart muscle lie in a culture dish, each continuing to beat at its own rhythm until it comes into contact with another cell. Once their edges touch, the two cells mysteriously begin to beat in unison...
Other critics attack Schoenberg for negating the distinction between dissonance and consonance. They contend that music, like so many things, must operate through the alternation of tension and release. Serial music, they maintain, cannot supply this rhythm because when equal weight is given to all pitches, none can sound more tense or relaxed than others...
Little, who faces trial in North Carolina Superior Court next month for breaking and entering, ended her remarks by saying she felt "the beat of the people." She began to tap on the podium, and the crowd started to clap along in rhythm. She and a friend then led the audience in "I Woke Up This Morning With a Mind Set on Freedom...
...despite the frenzy of both the performers and the audience, the show retained its tightness and musical virtuousity. The numbers were delivered in fast sequence. The harmony was close and rhythm exact, the sound was solid and pure, and the show was unencumbered by excesses of lightsmanship. The first half of the concert was mostly composed of tunes from Jimmy Cliff's two albums, The Harder They Come and Unlimited. While the second half ran through his just-released album, Follow My Mind. For its first encore the band played Under the Sun, Moon and Stars, and the concert ended...