Word: uses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...xylophone solo to the final burst of harp-punctuated melody, the village tragedy unfolded without the benefit of set pieces, ensembles or arias. Heavily percussioned, the orchestra sometimes sank to a rich, nervous whisper flickering through the strings, sometimes burst forth in anguished, brassy cries. Throughout, Janacek's use of exotic folk idiom wrapped the opera in an eerie, Kafka-like haze that did much to add depth and mysterious dimension to the melodramatic plot...
...there is anything calculated to make a good reporter's blood boil, it is that growing journalistic bugbear, the hold-for-release story. Although there is a legitimate use for the hold-for-release, as with, for example, advance copies of speeches, more often it is a device used by pressagent types anxious for simultaneous nationwide news splashes. Government agencies are prime offenders, and the automobile industry has virtually canonized the hold-for-release. But now and again, some brave journalistic spirit dares defy the restrictions-as last week did the New York Times and its Women...
Patients carry matches and lighters, wear wristwatches. Only rings of exceptional value are locked up for safety's sake. Women use knives freely when cooking in individual ward kitchens, are allowed scissors for sewing. They use electric washing machines, dryers and irons. Men shave themselves in the ward barber shop (though attendants change blades in safety razors), and have full access to cutting and gouging tools in the craft shop. If anything, says Dr. Snow, there are fewer accidents and fewer suicide attempts nowadays...
...Nature," says Buckminster Fuller, "always builds the most economic structures." With his geodesic dome now in wide use (e.g., at the U.S. exhibition in Moscow last summer), Bucky Fuller has delved into the geometry that underlies nature's structures from the atom to the planetary system, to produce two more pioneering ideas. Last week they were on view in the floodlighted garden of Manhattan's Museum of Modern...
...proposals accepted at the meeting are encouragement of: research on an annual theme by delegates and students; informal discussion, forums and official action by student councils; participation in these discussions by student political clubs and groups; attendance by guests other than students at the Regional and National Congresses; and use of the Region to carry the theme issue to the National Congress and to serve as an information source at the Congress...