Word: sounding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Uniform Act establishes the right of any person of sound mind, 18 or over, to donate his body-effectively preventing relatives from vetoing the gift after death. Moreover, the legislation should make possible the rapid legal decisions that are necessary for organ transplants. For one thing, it allows a man to donate his body through any "written instrument," not necessarily a will, thus providing a way around the delay of probate. The law also permits survivors to donate a man's organs; to avoid time-consuming quarrels, it lists relatives in an order that determines whose wishes will prevail...
...gold record, signifying that a given release has had retail sales of $1,000,000 or more. In the pop field, goldies are a dime a dozen, but in the 21-year history of LP, there have been only five million-dollar classical bestsellers. Three of them - The Glorious Sound of Christmas, the Messiah and The Lord's Prayer - were made by the Philadelphia Orchestra,* a top seller down through the years, and the most-recorded orchestra in the U.S. Small wonder, then, that it finds itself right in the middle of one of the fiercest, most extraordinary competitive...
...BEATLES--While all rock groups do music that sounds "far out," the Beatles are really the only ones who represent a specifically acid experience with a combination of lyrics and musical sounds. Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds and Dear Prudence, in particular, deal with the kind of transcendence that the acid experience is. The totally new kind of sound in both these songs is what it's all about...
...experience (like: 'go with the flow," "synch," "kairos," and "total attention"). Here is Wolfe describing Kesey on one of the first acid trips in history: "The first thing he knew about it was a squirrel dropped an acorn from a tree outside, only it was tremendously loud and sounded like it was not outside but right in the room with him and not actually a sound, either, but a great suffusing presence, visual, almost tactile, a great impacting of . . . blue . . . all around him and suddenly he was in a realm of consciousness he had never dreamed of before...
...course, an area where the final decision rests with the Faculty of Arts and sciences, and there is every indication that the Afro position will be adopted by the Faculty tomorrow. By doing so, the Faculty will not only be argeeing to a proposal which is fundamentally sound and just, but will also be demonstrating that its concern with pressing issues does not ebb and flow with the degree of overt pressure which students are exerting...