Word: unevennesses
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...receptive observer in Williamsburg could carry away even more than sketches of great men and political events. That small band of Virginians two centuries ago relished good wine, played their fiddles with delight if uneven skill, spent the gentle evenings talking about literature, philosophy and the new findings in medicine and science. They examined the delicacy of the bloom in more than a hundred small gardens and inhaled the subtle scents of the catalpa trees ("Almost everything grows that is put into the ground," marveled a Swiss visitor in 1701). They worked and studied prodigiously for their beliefs, a diligence...
...Ohio, sharply above the national level of 10.2%. Yet in many other areas the rise of high-tech companies has spawned pockets of booming growth: the Route 128 strip around Boston, California's Silicon Valley and the Research Triangle Park area in North Carolina. The uneven distribution of job opportunities is beginning to cause mass migrations reminiscent of other periods in American history. Thousands of young people are heeding the cry of the '80s: "Go West, young man, and grow up with a new industry...
Typewriters in Art. Claes Oldenburg's Soft Typewriter. Also, Leroy Anderson's musical number The Typewriter, remembered for its effective use of the bell. Marshall McLuhan surmised that the typewriter has contributed to the writing of free-verse poetry, because the righthand margins are uneven. This is fascinating, but unlikely. Yet e.e. cummings' poems could have been composed on nothing but a typewriter, and many novelists have used the lower case and run-on words to convey streams of consciousness. Don Marquis' archys life of mehitabel made a poet of a cockroach who was unable...
...visiting crew pulled together well, showing more consistency than in last week's uneven performance at Cornell. But the lack of power that flawed last week's race did them in once again. Dartmouth extended its lead gradually over the Radcliffe boat despite the Black and White's better rowing form...
...MUSICAL has a few other problems, too. The choreography is uneven: the first dance number is uninteresting and, during an otherwise good kickline number called, "Side by Side by Side," it is obvious that the cast is imitating tap dancing rather than performing...