Word: thumps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Constantly you feel that Berryman is daring to say something oceanic, then returning to the concrete with a thump or a blast. And the man is absolute master of his materials, which points less toward facility in the use of stanzas, rhymes, and meters--like Auden's--than toward an utter control over all the possible sounds and meanings of each word...
...spacecraft control. Pictures of the docking process (see succeeding pages) reflected Gemini's cautious approach and clearly showed the green lights on the Agena's instrument panel signaling that all was well. Despite their silence, the pictures seemed to give the sound of a solid, satisfactory thump as the two vehicles mated firmly in space...
...remained for the 20-minute-long fifth movement, which one critic called "among the very greatest things that Mahler has left us," to lift the pall of futility. The doom-laden thump of a muffled drum, an idea that Mahler conceived one day when he heard the drums of a funeral procession passing his Manhattan apartment, intrudes repeatedly, driving back the forces of light. Then, unfurling slowly, the divergent strands of the opening themes are resolved in a finale of radiant transfiguration, ending as serenely as oncoming sleep - or death. "The Tenth" says Cooke, "holds the secret of Mahler...
...result last week was one of the merriest fund-raising functions ever. At San Diego's community auditorium, the auction was set in motion at 7:30 p.m. by COMBO President Robert Peterson and did not stop until the last thump of the gavel at 3:30 a.m. Meanwhile, 750 diners ate, drank, laughed and shouted themselves hoarse...
...beat began with the insistence of a trip-hammer-chunga-chunga-thump, chunga-chunga-thump. There stood Gary Lewis before the TV cameras, slapping his thighs giddap fashion as he Jet loose with a whine that reverberated-ated-ated like a struck gong Then the three Playboys chimed in with a shivering "Wa-wa-wa-wa-wa" Enter a rampaging electric organ, a cascade of tambourines, an explosion of drums ... But wait. Where was all this sound coming from? And Singer Lewis-his lips seemed out of focus...