Word: scatteredness
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But by the Spring of 1960 a new mood had pervaded the Harvard campus. Political activity that spring was scattered but distinct. A number of small political organizations had been formed, each for a specific purpose. A civil rights group formed in sympathy with the Woolworth sit-ins in Montgomery...
Plain Fury. Her career in contemporary sounds began in 1958 with a Rome performance of John Cage's Aria with Fontana Mix, in which phrases in English, French, Italian, Armenian and Russian were scattered all over the scale, with marginal indications that they be sung in a "baby or...
In underdeveloped Brazil, the state of Paraná occupies a vital niche. From its fertile soil come 45% of the country's coffee, 90% of its newsprint, and huge quantities of corn, cotton and beans. Last week Brazil's most prosperous farm state was going up in flames...
The First Spark. To blame was the state's eight-month drought, which has turned the southern part of Brazil-from the Uruguayan border to Rio-into a tinderbox. All it took was some farmers burning off their land for the next planting, cigarettes carelessly flicked away, campfires not...
Somehow in the next hour or so, the house was turned into a shambles. About 200 windowpanes were broken, curtains were torn down, telephones torn out, rugs were scattered, a refrigerator and various lamps were turned over, and most of the furniture ended up on the beach. The police took...