Word: submitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are no chords (in the Western sense) in Hovhaness' trance-like music. He hates chords. Says he: "It is a European sophistication ... to force melody to submit to the dictatorship of harmony." Hovhaness himself uses ancient Indian ragas, or what he calls "groups of associated notes" and tolas, groups of beats, rather than the conventional rhythms...
Fifty years from now the world may be an entirely different place. Are we going to play our part in it? Are we going to submit and bow down to it, or are we going to stand up to it and meet its challenge on behalf of human dignity...
...Economic and social life is inconceivable without liberty. ... It cannot be a liberty which merely denies state regulation. Neither can it be the pseudo-liberty of our present day wherein man is asked to submit his individuality to the will and fancy of gigantic organizations. Genuine and healthy liberty can be only that of men who, feeling themselves solidly bound together in a team to ensure a good social economy, acquire the right to insist on its guarantee and protection without violation of individual liberty...
Straughton Gettier 1DV, was delegated to submit a draft for the possible constitution of the enlarged group. His report will attempt to define the aims, purposes and functions of the Association, preliminary to a bid for official University recognition...
...winners, arguing the affirmative of the topic, "Resolved, That the United States should cease unilateral action in foreign affairs," suggested that this country submit all major action in foreign relations to a majority approval of the United Nations assembly. Only after this had been done, Big Red speakers assected, should the U.S. take action, Cornell debaters were Alvin Arnold and Martin Hummel...