Word: sounding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SALESMAN. The Maysles brothers, with camera and sound equipment in hand, spent six weeks tracking a group of New England Bible salesmen on their weary rounds. The result is a searing, melancholy and not wholly unsympathetic portrait of what the Maysles call "one part of the American dream...
...danger I fear is rather an opposite one: that the disgusting behavior of a very small group of students -- the overwhelming majority of our students are sound, and wish nothing more than to take advantage of the opportunities higher education offers them -- will arouse a severe counter-reaction, so much so that their left radicalism may lead to a fascist type of backlash...
Nabokov's mother, Elena Ivanovna, who lived on in exile until 1939, read aloud to Vladimir in three languages. More important, she encouraged his attempts at poetry and nourished his susceptibility to sound and color. Mother and son shared a strong sense that certain colors and certain letters of the alphabet are related?p was an unripe apple green, for instance; y's and u's had a brassy "olive sheen." Matching colors and letters, Nabokov evolved a new private word, Kzspygv, which meant but did not spell "rainbow...
...crow? a CROW? No, no, no, no, no, my goodness no, not a crow at all. They emit a beautiful sound, a sort of kissing sound-chwink, chwink-which a crow cannot even approach. Pity is that they do it right on my window sill at dawn...
...exact details of his hearing as well as the charges against him. Evidence used, according to a letter received by Nathan L. Goldshlag '71, includes documents of general information (in this case presented by Archibald Cox, Samuel Williston Professor of Law), photographs, written statements, and oral testimony. A sound tape was also made of each hearing...