Word: splinteredness
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Disdaining the limits of standard rhythms, harmonies and tonality, Coleman's music is a constant quest for new freedom of expression, a reaching out into the uncharted universe of sound. The effect is a kind of stream-of-consciousness music, an unchained melody of jagged cries, urgent bleats and...
I Was Dancing. Novelist Edwin O'Connor has always created characters with a tongue or two in their heads. In his first play, his hero is a retired vaudevillian, Waltzing Daniel Considine. Burgess Meredith acts, sings, and dances the part as if gazing nostalgically into the splintered mirror of...
There was plenty of feedback, particularly from Communist leaders outside Russia. They should be accustomed to the Communist way of changing rulers, but they reacted with puzzlement, anger, even outrage. The fact was ironic, for in large measure Khrushchev had been felled because his policies had lately splintered the Communist...
Glee for Gunfire. The first rounds were warning shots fired ahead of the approaching blips. But at 6,000 yards, when the blips kept closing in, the destroyers began firing for effect. The torrent of impacting 5-in. shells sent spouts of water skyward, creating a whole new set of...
The main item on the agenda is the pious wish to "establish relations among the Arab countries on the sound basis of love and genuine cooperation." But in the Arab world, love is a many-splintered thing, what with 40,000 Egyptian troops fighting a bloody guerrilla war with royalist...