Raw silk is not galled, it is dyed at once in the black without any preparation : the liquor should be hot

In the interests of creating new men and new women, she writes, the leadership pushed an antimonogamy policy, giving joyless parties where virtual strangers had public sex.

If he [the Hindu god Varuna] cannot be classed exclusively among the gods of the sky he nevertheless has qualities proper to the ouranian divinities. He is visva-darsata, everywhere visible, he separated the two worlds, the wind is his breath; …

Jazz musicians do that as they play the changes, improvising their way through a sequence of chords that gives stability, shape, and direction to the tune they play.