Word: synthesiser
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Finally, Ursula Oppens came and played Beethoven. She played him as he should be played, with the overall lightness that this last of the rococo concerti deserves (for although numbered the First, this is actually the second of Beethoven's piano concerti, and in the last three he had completely...
"Well, why don't you dissolve it in ether and pour it out the window," was the reply. "Stupid people," thought the section man. "I could be elucidating the mechanism of cyclobutadiene synthesis, and they put me in charge of mewling infants."
The term springs from the widespread use of the cept at Princeton University, which boasts of the small, conversational classes that it calls "precepts." The cept is jokingly defined as "half a concept"-meaning that it is more than a fact but less than a philosophy, more than an epigram...
Mr. Epps has not yet approached success. His writings on the Negro revolution mix, in a very mechanical way, the jargon of Sociology and the rhetoric of moral imprecation. There is no fusion of technique and sensibility. This piece in Mosaic seems to me no less mechanical synthesis of literary...
Mr. Epps knows many worlds, and his sensibility and intelligence--both prodigious--are fragmented. His mind is made up of many unconnected facets and regions, and it gleans insights as a piece of quartz catches the sun--in glints and flashes. All of his writing seems to me a Promethean...