Word: utters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cults of aficionados armed with phonograph records travel in their wake. Thelonious Monk's cult, whispering of Webern, insists that the silences in his music are even more profound than the sounds. Miles Davis' cult, transfixed by his trumpet, says nothing, preferring to express its worship in utter silence. But the cultists that follow John Lewis and his Modern Jazz Quartet see themselves as the True Believers...
Katherine, the novel's shy and lonely heroine, leaves her unnamed European country one summer to visit a family in England. She falls in love with the son, Robin, but is put off by his flawless British manners, his utter imperturbability, "this sandpapering of every word and gesture until it exactly fits its place in the conversation." Robin's true emotions can not crack his polished exterior...
...doing of any one man; it involved the collaboration of scores of scientists from many different lands. But from first to last, the deeply creative, subtle and critical spirit of Niels Bohr guided, restrained, deepened, and finally transmuted the enterprise." He never dogmatized. "Every sentence I utter," Bohr liked to tell his students, "must be understood not as an affirmation but as a question." Once he defined truth as "something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is unjustified...
...France a week before the Armistice. The music was by Benjamin Britten, a passionate pacifist and conscientious objector during World War II. After the chorus in West Berlin's Deutsche Oper had chanted the final line of Britten's War Requiem, the stunned audience sat in utter silence. Then came volleys of applause. Britten's nonliturgical Mass is fast taking its place as one of the rare modern masterworks for the voice...
...coherence; the improvement may be explained by Burroughs' solemn assurance that much of his writing is dictation from Hasan-i-Sabbah. founder of the eleventh century hashish-eating Ismaili cult, the Assassins. The two most recent books, Novia Express and The Ticket That Exploded, come daringly close to utter babble, according to reports. In these volumes Hasan's dictation is augmented with a "fold-in" technique: pages of the first draft (or of a newspaper, Shakespeare, or whatnot) are taken at random, folded in half lengthwise, and stuck together. This juxtaposition of fragments, says Burroughs, produces a continuous...