Word: seers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mickey Mouse music," i.e., the tempo coinciding with movement and speech. The Partch orchestra produced cacophonous sounds sometimes reminiscent of a Hollywood sound track for a Chinese street scene, sometimes like a symphony orchestra tuning up, occasionally like a Hawaiian string trio, and once during the argument between the seer and Oedipus, the rat-a-tat-tat of one of the percussions over a loudspeaker sounded like mice in the attic. The best thing about Partch's music was that it seldom got in the way of the actors, who half-spoke, half-sang the lines. After four curtain...
...Otis plain to see this game Pitts two teams, even-Stevens in Emery way," the almond-eyed Seer remarked...
...will not Wilkinson," the Seer maintained. "Just Hitchon to this Pick. We'll win Hanley...
...want MURPHY-our money, however," replied the Seer...
Author Fisher shows some sympathy for the hot-eyed Ahijah. It is almost as though there were some burning affinity between the old eater of stones and howler in the waste places and the seer of Hagerman, Idaho, crying his confused and passionate evangel of history in the wilderness of American letters...