Word: woven
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lome, Togo--Back of the wide yellow beach and its palm trees that are your first impression, there are the woven-bamboo shacks that surround every city I saw in Africa. The huts are fenced-off into compounds with communal cooking and eating areas...
...marks of civilization, like the concrete slabs covering the sewer ditches, are falling apart. Like center cities everywhere, Matadi is giving way to the suburbs: the villages which crowd the circle of hills around the city now use shale-and-cement and concrete blocks for building materials instead of woven cane and occasional tin-and-plywood...
...been effectively challenged down to the present day. But his detailed account of centuries of absolutism seems less like the topical history of Russia its title suggests than an article in Pravda, where events don't seem to change things much and where all the loose ends are neatly woven together. Pipes leaves the loose ends out entirely, examining Imperial Russia's various social classes from the single perspective of their relation to the growing Tsarist authority. His narrative becomes no more than a tale of each of the different social classes getting caught in the patrimonial monarch...
...simultaneously build different themes which appear and disappear only to reassert themselves at a later juncture. The music's complexity is stunning; like an intricate web seen from afar, his music seems initially amorphous, but upon closer examination each musical strand and the pattern into which it is woven appears. In many ways Taylor's style is the antithesis of Ayler's in that Taylor is using the new musical freedom to construct a more sophisticated form, rather than a simpler...
Attacks like "his intentions are good"--something heard a few times in the cordial exchange--did little to counter Shockley's well-woven arguments, which through years of practice have made his detractors powerless to pick out the individual strands of racist thought that criss-cross his speech...