Word: sonant
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more likely in Hinckley's mind was a dis sonant snarl of emotions and delusions, which in concert led him to Washington...
...indeterminacy" is the ultimate in pure chance. But he will have to go some to surpass English Composer Cornelius Cardew, 26, who in his Octet '61 for Jasper Johns* includes a vague injunction to "Do something completely different," or Argentine-born Mauricio Kagel, 30, who in his Sonant, made himself obsolete...
Most obvious of the indications of the lack of sympathy between this author and the modern world is his vocabulary. It includes the frequent use of archaisms and unusual words such as "rathe," "sonant," "unimpasted," which are not found in the average abridged dictionary. The attempt to recover the idiom of another age so deliberate that the writer cannot have realized the many-times repeated truth that the Elizabethtn poets were not works with "thees" and "dosts" and "wilts." Among their contemporaries the words were in good and familiar usage, and a writer three hundred years later is not justified...
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