Word: temporised
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As an example of series music Krenek played a tape of his "Quaestio Temporis," a short piece for chamber orchestra. "It sounds completely random," he said, following the tape, "but it is actually highly structured." The listener has difficulty in orienting himself because there is no tempo in the conventional...
∙ FRANCIS BACON: "It is undeniable that Bacon has about him something of the magnificent charlatan. He is full of large utterance, but himself performs little. His own experimenting was unprofitable, and he ignored some of the best work of his contemporaries. But as the buccinator novi temporis (trumpeter of...
Nee infallibilis nee impeccabilis Latina Temporis est. Non liqueris aut liqui sed loqueris et loqui, (Non liquor fluidus sed lingua fluens.) O temporal O mores I O Papa Tempus! Tu certe non es papabilis.
Mr. Leslie is neither the familiar "laudator temporis acti" not the unheeded prophet wailing in the wilderness, He does not come to censure or to praise. His general purpose is not historical, of course, for that adjective would be too dignified for one man's impressions of the times in...
The writer in the "Graduates Magazine" has merely fallen into that error which so frequently ensnares such "laudatores temporis acti"; having compared the best of his own generation with the worst of ours, he fancies that he has accurately estimated our worth! It is only fifteen years since Harry Elkins...