Word: sections
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...wave that fairly boiled the Coca-Cola in the jury's veins, a 24-year-old school teacher named John Thomas Scopes went on trial in the hill-country town of Dayton, Tenn. ("the buckle of the Bible Belt") while half the world wondered and a fair cross-section of it sat sweating in the courtroom. The charge: that Schoolteacher Scopes, by propounding Darwin's theory of evolution to his classes, had violated a Tennessee statute that refused him the right "to teach any theory that denies the story of divine creation of man as taught...
Developed by Calvin S. McCamy, chief of the bureau's photographic research section, the camera's purpose is to test the resolving power (fine-grainedness) of photographic films, plates and papers. It may never be used for practical microfilming. It is too hard to focus, and it must be shielded from even faint vibration by enclosing it and the object to be photographed in a heavy metal cylinder suspended by springs. If a stray speck of dust wanders onto the film it might blot out half a book...
...Breakthrough. It is not a campaign document, nor even necessarily an election-year product, and thus does not suffer from the terrible solemnity of the other two works. The Liberal Hour is a brief, entertaining collection of lectures and writings on a fairly wide variety of subjects; only one section (containing four selections) touches directly on important political topics...
...This section of the book comes closer to being the "reasoned analysis" promised in the foreword. The different views on the state of the nation are amplified with recent statements by the two candidates. And the conflict between the two parties is supported by a thumbnail historical digression. Further, the tone of this portion of the essay is, for the most part, clearly less inflammatory...
Brisk & Martial. The Leningrad's greatest strength is its string section, which plays with a precision and dynamic range beyond the ability of most Western orchestras. The brasses are bright-almost too much so. Reported Critic Desmond Shawe-Taylor: "They are encouraged to play like cavalry on the line." But the Leningrad's most distinctive feature is the way in which it separates the various sections of the orchestra: instead of aiming for a thickly blended sound. Conductor Mravinsky emphasizes differences in coloration. The tempos, even in romantic composers, are brisk, martial-and not to every taste. Said...