Word: stringing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...orchestra has received orders for crashing cymbals, female french horn players, and a string quartet, as well as more common requests, according to Melissa Feliciano '90, who is organizing the project...
Harvard continued its string of dramatic victories over the Tigers with a 5-4 overtime win in front of its biggest home crowd of the year (200 fans plus the Harvard band...
Enthralled by physics, Stephen concentrated in the subject at Oxford's University College, but did not distinguish himself. He partied, served as coxswain for the second-string crew and studied only an hour or so a day. Moving on to Cambridge for graduate work in relativity, he found the going rough, partly because of some puzzling physical problems; he stumbled frequently and seemed to be getting clumsy...
...ability to perceive complex truths without doodling long equations on paper astounds his colleagues. "He has an ability to visualize four- dimensional geometry that is almost unique," says Werner Israel, a University of Alberta physicist who has collaborated with Hawking in relating mini-black holes to the new cosmic-string theories. Observes Kolb: "It's like Michael Jordan playing basketball. No one can tell Jordan what moves to make. It's intuition. It's feeling. Hawking has a remarkable amount of intuition...
Midway through Chekhov's last play, written as he was dying, a plangent twang is heard by the members and hangers-on of a once grand family on the verge of eviction from its estate. Everybody perceives the sound, which Chekhov likens in the stage directions to a snapping string, but each has his own sense of what it meant. To one, it suggests the call of a heron; to another, an owl; and to a third, a cable breaking in a distant mine shaft. In most productions the moment is a throwaway. In a few it hints...