Word: swiftness
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...Hissing of Summer Lawns, however, is not so clearly defined. Joni Mitchell's despair and cynicism about surburbia, her alluding images, are too easily missed--the words trip over each other and get lost. She rarely succeeds at complementing lyrics with music. The bouncy conga rhythms are often too swift a vehicle for the words; and the synthesizer-chorale approach she takes to the more philosophical poems only makes them pretentious or droning...
...swift, unpredictable movement of the show testified to the group's "Kuumba," or creativity, as the word translates from Swahili, while the audience involvement further reflected the creative energy of the choir singers. The program opened with a gospel tune, "Jesus, the Light of the World" and a Scripture reading, and the spiritual overtones continued through the performance, emphasizing Christmas as a celebration that brings people together...
...students, to paraphrase Dean Swift (who probably never would have managed to secure a tenured post here at Harvard), they are just half a blessing and just half a curse and I wish, my dear friend, they were better or worse. There is great talent, great idealism and even greater decency and good sense slumbering in the breasts of most of the students I have met or worked with during my brief stay. Many students are already mature human beings engaged in useful thought and action, but, to the extent that they are, they are doing so in spite...
...policymakers connected with the Manhattan Project assumed from its inception that the Bomb would be used to win the war-and that the assumption was never seriously questioned. Sherwin does suggest (almost parenthetically) that neither Hiroshima nor Nagasaki had to be destroyed to bring the war to a swift conclusion...
...example, that "to this day ... the U.S. government has never officially acknowledged that Americans [two captured Navy flyers] were killed at Hiroshima." Determined to avoid any tendentiousness, Sherwin is sometimes too cautious in presenting his insights, which are numerous but tucked away. The modesty is misplaced. Jona than Swift once observed, "the greatest inventions were produced in times of ignorance, as the use of the compass, gun powder, printing." To that list of dark times must be added the 1940s; to the list of new devices, atomic weapons. A World Destroyed does much to explain the invention - and far more...