John Sweeney: In 1961 he joined the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) as a contract director for New York City Local 32B, and he became president of the local in 1976. Elected president of the SEIU in 1980, he was credited with boosting membership by 75 percent (to more than one million)…

Sega Corporation, software and hardware company created in the United States—but now based in Japan—that developed computers and electronic game technology. Sega originated in 1940 as Standard Games, a coin-operated game company in Hawaii. While providing games for military bases, the company was

service industry, an industry in that part of the economy that creates services rather than tangible objects. Economists divide all economic activity into two broad categories, goods and services. Goods-producing industries are agriculture, mining, manufacturing, and construction; each of them

Apollo: The service module (SM) was attached to the back of the CM and carried its fuel and power to form the command/service module (CSM). Docked to the front of the CSM was the lunar module (LM). One astronaut stayed in the CSM while the other two…

Russia: The Petrine state: …similar fashion from the landowning service class. The terms of service prevailing in Muscovite times, however, were transformed radically. The young noble serviceman was called to serve from age 15 until his death or total incapacity. In principle, service was permanent with only rare leaves granted to attend to family…

service industry, an industry in that part of the economy that creates services rather than tangible objects. Economists divide all economic activity into two broad categories, goods and services. Goods-producing industries are agriculture, mining, manufacturing, and construction; each of them

operations research: Model construction: …the cars stopping at urban automotive service stations located at intersections of two streets revealed that almost all came from four of the 16 possible routes through the intersection (four ways of entering times four ways of leaving). Examination of the percentage of cars in each route that stopped for…

logistics: Services: …as distinct from the “service support” functions of supply, transportation, hospitalization and evacuation, military justice and discipline, custody of prisoners of war, civil affairs, personnel administration, and nontactical construction (performed by “construction” engineers). Training of combat troops is hardly ever considered a logistic service, whereas training of service troops…

ship: Service vessels: The service ships are mostly tugs or towing vessels whose principal function is to provide propulsive power to other vessels. Most of them serve in harbours and inland waters, and, because the only significant weight they need carry is a propulsion plant and…

tennis: Strategy and technique: …the ball and a “service winner” if the opponent reaches it but cannot play it, or the server can force such a weak return that his second shot is an easy “kill.” Especially on faster surfaces, the server may also follow his delivery to the net and establish his…

Elman Rogers Service was an American anthropological theorist of cultural evolution and formulator of the nomenclature now in standard use to categorize primitive societies as bands, tribes, chiefdoms, and states. Although widely accepted, the system was abandoned by Service himself because his

Robert W. Service was a popular verse writer called “the Canadian Kipling” for his rollicking ballads of the “frozen North,” notably “The Shooting of Dan McGrew.” Service emigrated to Canada in 1896 and, while working for the Canadian Bank of Commerce in Victoria, British Columbia, was stationed

Robert W. Service was a popular verse writer called “the Canadian Kipling” for his rollicking ballads of the “frozen North,” notably “The Shooting of Dan McGrew.” Service emigrated to Canada in 1896 and, while working for the Canadian Bank of Commerce in Victoria, British Columbia, was stationed

serviceberry, (genus Amelanchier), genus of some 20 species of flowering shrubs and small trees of the rose family (Rosaceae). Most species are North American; exceptions include the snowy mespilus (Amelanchier ovalis), which ranges over Europe, and the Asian serviceberry, or Korean juneberry (A.

Robin Wall Kimmerer: Braiding Sweetgrass and The Serviceberry: Her book The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World was released in November 2024. It is described as “a bold and inspiring vision for how to orient our lives around gratitude, reciprocity, and community, based on the lessons of the natural world.”

The ServiceMaster Company, American holding company specializing in home and commercial services such as lawn care and landscaping, cleaning, plumbing, home security, and home inspection. It is characterized by a philosophy that combines goals of economic success with a mandate for “honouring God

G.I. Bill, U.S. legislation adopted in 1944 that provided various benefits to veterans of World War II. Through the Veterans Administration (later the Department of Veterans Affairs; VA), the act enabled veterans to obtain grants for school and college tuition, low-interest mortgage and

economics: The marginalists: …among increments of goods and services; that is, they examined the benefit (utility) that a consumer derives from buying an additional unit of something (a commodity or service) that he already possesses in some quantity. (See utility and value.) The idea of emphasizing the “marginal” (or last) unit proved in…

South America: Sociological changes: …example, institutions such as the Protective Service for the Indians (Serviço de Proteção do Indio) and the National Indian Foundation (Fundação Nacional do Indio) were established, although such organizations often have become agents for the relocation and control of Indian groups rather than for their interests and survival. Christian missionaries…

servitude: …parcel is called the “servient estate” and the benefited parcel the “dominant estate.” Benefits and burdens that run with the land are “appurtenant” (i.e., they must be used for specific property) and cannot generally be detached from the land with which they are associated. Because appurtenant benefits and burdens…

Servilia was the mistress of Julius Caesar, mother to his murderer Marcus Brutus, and one of the grandes dames of Rome’s late republican period. Servilia was the daughter of Quintus Servilius Caepio and Livia. Servilia was first wed to Marcus Junius Brutus, by whom she bore the younger Brutus in 85

Isauria: …by the Roman general Publius Servilius Vatia “Isauricus” in a three-year campaign, 76–74 bc. Their country with its capital, Isaura Palaia, was joined with Cilicia by Pompey; and under the emperor Augustus (reigned 27 bc–ad 14) it became part of the Roman province of Galatia. Isauria was later prominent as…

Matthew Perry: Other credits: The Whole Nine Yards and The West Wing: …Three to Tango (1999), and Serving Sara (2002) failed to find an audience. More successful was The Whole Nine Yards (2000), a popular comedy in which he played a dentist whose new neighbor (Bruce Willis) is a gangster. He reprised the role in the 2004 sequel, The Whole Ten Yards.

Servite, a Roman Catholic order of mendicant friars—religious men who lead a monastic life, including the choral recitation of the liturgical office, but do active work—founded in 1233 by a group of seven cloth merchants of Florence. These men, known collectively as the Seven Holy Founders, left

Seven Holy Founders ; canonized 1888; feast day February 17) are the seven Italian saints who founded the Servite order in 1233. The Seven Holy Founders include Saints Bonfilius, Alexis Falconieri, John Bonagiunta, Benedict dell’Antella, Bartholomew Amidei, Gerard Sostegni, and Ricoverus Uguccione.

Marxism: The contributions of Engels: …humanity from the condition of servitude imposed by the capitalist mode of production, the state will also be abolished and religion will disappear by “natural death.”

servitude, in Anglo-American property law, a device that ties rights and obligations to ownership or possession of land so that they run with the land to successive owners and occupiers. In contemporary property law, servitudes allow people to create stable long-term arrangements for a wide variety

license: …may be called an “executed parol license,” though it is more accurately called a servitude created by estoppel, a term that better describes both the process used to create the right and the resulting right itself. An executed parol license creates a right that runs with the land indefinitely,…

Alfred-Victor, count de Vigny: Maturity and disillusionment.: Vigny’s novel Servitude et grandeur militaires (1835; “Servitude and Military Greatness”; Eng. trans. The Military Necessity) is also a consultation. The book’s three stories, linked by personal comment, deal with the dignity and suffering of the soldier, who is obliged by his profession to kill yet who…

Servius was a Latin grammarian, commentator, and teacher, author of a valuable commentary on Virgil. As an adulescens Servius was one of the speakers in the Saturnalia of Ambrosius Theodosius Macrobius, and at least the greater part of his life was spent in Rome. His commentary on Virgil is extant

Galba was a Roman emperor for seven months (ad 68–69), whose administration was priggishly upright, though his advisers allegedly were corrupt. Galba was the son of the consul Gaius Sulpicius Galba and Mummia Achaica, and in addition to great wealth and ancient lineage he enjoyed the favour of the

Galba was a Roman emperor for seven months (ad 68–69), whose administration was priggishly upright, though his advisers allegedly were corrupt. Galba was the son of the consul Gaius Sulpicius Galba and Mummia Achaica, and in addition to great wealth and ancient lineage he enjoyed the favour of the

Servius Tullius was traditionally the sixth king of Rome, who is credited with the Servian Constitution, which divided citizens into five classes according to wealth. This attribution may be a reading back into the uncertain past of reforms that were not effected until a much later date. He is also

servomechanism, automatic device used to correct the performance of a mechanism by means of an error-sensing feedback. The term servomechanism properly applies only to systems in which the feedback and error-correction signals control mechanical position or one of its derivatives such as velocity

electric motor: Servomotors: A servomotor is a small induction motor with two stator windings displaced 90° with respect to each other around its periphery. The rotor is usually of the squirrel-cage type but made with relatively high resistance conductors. The purpose of the motor is to provide…

Adonias Filho: …1940s with the publication of Os Servos da Morte (1946; “The Servants of Death”), the first of three novels depicting life in the cacao-growing region of northeastern Brazil. Memórias de Lázaro (1952; Memories of Lazarus) and O Forte (1965; “The Fortress”) complete the trilogy. In 1962 he published the novel…

stained glass: Periods and centres of activity: …1918) in the church at Séry-les-Mézières, northwest of Reims in France, probably of the 9th century. It appears certain that, as at Séry-les-Mézières, many of these early windows contained coloured glass arranged in comparatively simple decorative designs, with little use of the painted design.

sesame, (Sesamum indicum), erect annual plant of the family Pedaliaceae, grown since antiquity for its seeds, which are used as food and flavoring and from which a prized oil is extracted. Widely cultivated, the sesame plant is found in most of the tropical, subtropical, and southern temperate

Yiddish literature: Writers in New York: …early poem, “Sezame” (1921; “Sesame”), takes on the voice of Ali Baba’s doomed brother-in-law: “Open, sesame. / It darkens in the cave. / And I, / Weakened under the weight / Of the sacks of gold, silver, and diamonds, / Whisper without strength: / Open, sesame.” Other poems emphasize…

John Ruskin: Cultural criticism of John Ruskin: Sesame and Lilies (1865) would become notorious in the late 20th century as a stock example of Victorian male chauvinism. In fact, Ruskin was using the conventional construction of the feminine, as pacific, altruistic, and uncompetitive, to articulate yet another symbolic assertion of his anticapitalist…

sesame: …the seed is its fixed oil, which usually amounts to about 44 to 60 percent. Noted for its stability, the oil resists oxidative rancidity. The seeds are also high in protein and are rich in thiamin and vitamin B6.

sesame: …grown since antiquity for its seeds, which are used as food and flavoring and from which a prized oil is extracted. Widely cultivated, the sesame plant is found in most of the tropical, subtropical, and southern temperate areas of the world. The aroma and taste of sesame seed are mild…

Sesame Street, American educational television series for children. It debuted in 1969 on the National Educational Television network, an entity that became the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in 1970. The show has been continually broadcast since its inception, making it one of the

Sesame Street: …show has been produced by Sesame Workshop (formerly Children’s Television Workshop), a New York City-based nonprofit organization founded by Joan Ganz Cooney and Lloyd Morrisett. Though the show initially aired 130 episodes each season, an eventual decline in funding resulted in seasons of fewer than 30 episodes by the early…

Japanese music: Melodic principles: That so-called sesame-seed notation (goma-ten) remains basic to Noh vocal music today, and there are many detailed books in modern Japanese to help the initiate follow the music with the aid of a teacher. Variations in notation style and in the interpretation of specific passages are maintained by the…

joint: Structure and elements of synovial joints: …cartilages or partly ossified as sesamoid bones (small, flat bones developed in tendons that move over bony surfaces). Parts of the synovial layer project into the cavity to form fatty pads. In a few diarthroses the fibrous layer also projects inward to become intra-articular disks, or menisci. These various structures…

Lamiales: Pedaliaceae: Pedaliaceae, the sesame family, is a small family of 14 genera and 70 species. Its native distribution is exclusively Old World, in tropical and dry habitats, and its best-known member is Sesamum indicum (sesame). These are herbs or shrubs with spurred flowers and ovaries…

sesame, (Sesamum indicum), erect annual plant of the family Pedaliaceae, grown since antiquity for its seeds, which are used as food and flavoring and from which a prized oil is extracted. Widely cultivated, the sesame plant is found in most of the tropical, subtropical, and southern temperate

Lina Bo Bardi: Work After Bahia: …major architecture project was the SESC Pompéia (built in stages, 1977–1986), a leisure and cultural centre in São Paulo sponsored by the nonprofit Social Service of Commerce (Serviço Social do Comércio). Bo Bardi converted an old steel drum factory into a facility for sports, theatre, and other leisure activities.

African music: History: …during the 19th century, the zeze (or sese) flatbar zither, a stringed instrument long known along the East African coast, spread into the interior to Zambia, the eastern half of Congo (Kinshasa), and Malaŵi.

Lake Victoria: …the 62 islands of the Sese archipelago, some of them of striking beauty.

fascism: Serbia: …power at the expense of Vojislav Seselj’s Serbian Radical Party (Srpska Radikalna Stranka; SRS), then the largest neofascist party in Serbia. Although the SPS had won 65 percent of the vote in elections to the Serbian assembly in 1990, deteriorating economic conditions and perceived threats to Serbian enclaves in Croatia…

Seshachalam Hills, hill ranges of the Eastern Ghats, southern Andhra Pradesh state, southeastern India. Formed during Precambrian time (i.e., earlier than about 540 million years ago), the ranges contain sandstone and shale interbedded with limestone and are highly dissected, with many longitudinal

Seshat, in ancient Egyptian religion, the goddess of writing and measurement and the ruler of books. She was the consort of the god Djhuty (Thoth), and both were divine scribes (sesb). She was portrayed as a female wearing a headband with horns and a star with her name written on it.

Seshego, town, Limpopo province, South Africa. It lies directly northwest of Polokwane. Until 1974 Seshego was the capital of the nonindependent Bantustan of Lebowa, which was abolished in 1994. The town’s industries produce food, beverages, tobacco, textiles, wearing apparel, leather goods, wood

percussion instrument: Idiophones: …closed at the top: the sesheshet was shaped like a temple, the iba like a closed horseshoe. Sacred to the Egyptian goddess Hathor, the iba was played only by women, and after Hathor’s metamorphosis into the goddess Isis it remained sacred to Isis.

lacquerwork: Application: …mixture of rice paste and seshime lacquer, until an absolutely even surface is obtained. It is then given a thin coat of seshime lacquer to fill up the pores of the wood and to provide a basis for succeeding operations, which may number as many as 20 or 30 or…

Pantelleria Island: …southeast are tombs, known as sesi, similar to the nuraghi of Sardinia, comprising rough lava towers with sepulchral chambers in them. After a considerable interval, during which the island probably remained uninhabited, the Phoenicians established a trading station there in the 7th century bc. Later controlled by the Carthaginians, it…

clearwing moth, (family Sesiidae), any of approximately 1,000 species of moths (order Lepidoptera) that are long-legged with a slender, dark body with bright red or yellow markings. The wings frequently lack scales and are transparent. Unlike those of other moths, the front and back wings are

Lepidoptera: Annotated classification: Superfamily Sesioidea Approximately 1,200 species worldwide; most sesioid moths are diurnal with many aposematic adults. Family Sesiidae (clearwing, or wasp, moths) More than 1,000 species worldwide; adults diurnal flower visitors; often brightly colored with yellow, orange, or scarlet, the wings usually mostly

Aegean civilizations: Neolithic (New Stone Age): …with specialized industries like potteries; Sesklo is an important site several acres in extent, with nearly 30 houses, a sophisticated gate, and striking red-and-white pottery. In the Late Neolithic, walled communities with special big houses that had megarons (central halls), as at Dhimini, suggest social hierarchies and dominant chiefs.

hwarangdo: … can be seen in the sesok o-kye (“five commandments”). These norms of virtuous conduct, apparently derived from Confucian and Buddhist teachings, taught loyal service to the king, filial piety, faithfulness to friends, courage in battle, and the evil of indiscriminate killing.

Sesostris I was a king of ancient Egypt who succeeded his father after a 10-year coregency and brought Egypt to a peak of prosperity. Sesostris became coregent in c. 1920 bce with his aging father, Amenemhet I, who had founded the 12th dynasty (c. 1939–c. 1760 bce). While his father completed his

Sesostris II was the king of ancient Egypt (reigned 1845–37 bce) of the 12th dynasty (1939–c. 1760) who devoted himself to the peaceful exploitation of Nubia, Egypt’s territory to the south, and initiated the development of Al-Fayyūm, a great oasis-like depression west of the Nile River and

Sesostris III was a king of ancient Egypt (reigned c. 1837–19 bce) of the 12th dynasty (c. 1939–1760 bce), who completely reshaped Egypt’s government and extended his dominion in Nubia, the land immediately south of Egypt. During the reigns of his predecessors, the provincial nobles of Middle Egypt

Benue-Congo languages: Bantoid: …of the population of Angola; Sotho, which has two dialects generally treated as separate languages, northern Sotho (3,800,000) and southern Sotho (4,000,000); and Kituba, a creole based mostly on Kongo, with some 4,000,000 first-language speakers and more than another 1,000,000 second-language speakers.

rare-earth element: Sesquioxides: All the rare-earth metals form the sesquioxide at room temperature, but it may not be the stable equilibrium composition. There are five different crystal structures for the R2O3 phase. They are designated as A, B, C, H, and X types (or forms), and their…

biplane: …the lower) is called a sesquiplane. A few triplane designs proved successful during World War I; powered aircraft with four or more main lifting surfaces have never been more than curiosities.

isoprenoid: Structural features of isoprenoids: …arrangements found in monoterpenes and sesquiterpenes (molecules containing 15 carbon atoms). Wallach’s proposal, called the isoprene rule, has helped chemists understand the structures of the more complex members of the class. The fundamental five-carbon unit typically has four carbon atoms in a linear chain with the fifth carbon attached at…

Sessa Aurunca, town and episcopal see, Campania regione, southern Italy, on a lava deposit of the extinct Roccamonfina volcano, north-northwest of Naples. The town is on the site of the ancient Suessa Aurunca, the chief city of the Aurunci (an ancient Italic tribe), which was punished by the Romans

Dino Buzzati: His collections of tales include Sessanta racconti (1958; “Sixty Tales”), which features the previously published novellas I sette messaggeri (1942; “The Seven Messengers”) and Paura alla scala (1949; “Panic at La Scala”). Among his other works are the science fiction novel Il grande ritratto (1960; Larger Than Life, also translated…

Japan: Changes in ritsuryō government: …ritsuryō codes were those of sesshō (regent) and kampaku (chief councillor), better known by an abbreviated combination of the two terms, sekkan (regency). The original role of the sesshō was to attend to affairs of state during the minority of the emperor, whereas the kampaku’s role was to attend to…

Sesshū was an artist of the Muromachi period, one of the greatest masters of the Japanese art of sumi-e, or monochrome ink painting. Sesshū adapted Chinese models to Japanese artistic ideals and aesthetic sensibilities. He painted landscapes, Zen Buddhist pictures, and screens decorated with

cirripede: Diversity and distribution: There are two types of sessile barnacle: symmetrical and asymmetrical. The two symmetrical sessile barnacles are the extinct suborder Brachylepadomorpha (Brachylepas) and the extant suborder Balanomorpha, or acorn barnacles (e.g., Balanus, Semibalanus, and Chthamalus). An acorn barnacle is a conical, sessile animal whose soft body is contained within a cavity…

angiosperm: Leaves: …directly to the stem (sessile), and others lack stipules (exstipulate). In compound leaves, a blade has two or more subunits called leaflets: in palmately compound leaves, the leaflets radiate from a single point at the distal end of the petiole; in pinnately compound leaves, a row of leaflets forms…

cirripede: Diversity and distribution: There are two types of sessile barnacle: symmetrical and asymmetrical. The two symmetrical sessile barnacles are the extinct suborder Brachylepadomorpha (Brachylepas) and the extant suborder Balanomorpha, or acorn barnacles (e.g., Balanus, Semibalanus, and Chthamalus). An acorn barnacle is a conical, sessile animal whose soft body is contained within a cavity…

computer science: Networking and communication: The session layer supports interactions between applications on two communicating machines. For example, it provides a mechanism with which to insert checkpoints (saving the current status of a task) into a long file transfer so that, in case of a failure, only the data after the…

computer science: Networking and communication: The session layer supports interactions between applications on two communicating machines. For example, it provides a mechanism with which to insert checkpoints (saving the current status of a task) into a long file transfer so that, in case of a failure, only the data after the…

Sir John Suckling: A Session of the Poets (1637; published 1646) is an amusing skit for which he probably took a hint from an Italian work by Traiano Boccalini; it is the prototype of a long line of similar works in the 17th and 18th centuries. His masterpiece…

Scotland: Justice: …same as those of the Court of Session, the supreme court for civil cases. An appeal may be directed to the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom from the Court of Session but not from the High Court of Justiciary. The Court of Session, consisting of the lord president, the…

assize, in law, a session, or sitting, of a court of justice. It originally signified the method of trial by jury. During the Middle Ages the term was applied to certain court sessions held in the counties of England; it was also applied in France to special sessions of the Parlement of Paris (the

Old Bailey, byname of the Central Criminal Court in London. It is perhaps the best known of several buildings housing the Crown Court, which handles the most serious criminal offenses in England and Wales. The present building (opened in 1907) is a familiar part of London’s skyline, with its copper

Bountiful, city, Davis county, northern Utah, U.S., between the Wasatch Range and Great Salt Lake, just north of Salt Lake City. The second Mormon settlement (after Salt Lake City) in Utah, the city was originally called Sessions’ Settlement (for Perrigrine Sessions, a Mormon pioneer who arrived in

environmentalism: Social ecology and deep ecology: …Devall, and the American philosopher George Sessions, share with social ecologists a distrust of capitalism and industrial technology and favour decentralized forms of social organization. Deep ecologists also claim that humans need to regain a “spiritual” relationship with nonhuman nature. By understanding the interconnectedness of all organisms—including humans—in the ecosphere…

Jeff Sessions is an American lawyer and politician who served as U.S. attorney general (2017–18) in the administration of Pres. Donald Trump. He previously represented Alabama in the U.S. Senate (1997–2017). Sessions grew up in Hybart, Alabama, where he was active in the Boy Scouts, eventually

Jeff Sessions is an American lawyer and politician who served as U.S. attorney general (2017–18) in the administration of Pres. Donald Trump. He previously represented Alabama in the U.S. Senate (1997–2017). Sessions grew up in Hybart, Alabama, where he was active in the Boy Scouts, eventually

Roger Sessions was an American composer of symphonic and instrumental music who played a leading part in educating his contemporaries to an appreciation of modern music. He studied at Harvard University and at the Yale School of Music and later took composition lessons from Ernest Bloch. After

Helen Hunt: …Surfer (2011) and the drama The Sessions (2012), in which she played a sex therapist who helps a disabled man lose his virginity. She also wrote, directed, and starred in Ride (2014), about a writer who follows her son to California when he drops out of college. In 2018 Hunt…

Orhan Pamuk: Works: …it with Sessiz ev (1983; Silent House), relying on multiple narrators to shape the story of a family gathering on the eve of the Turkish military coup of 1980. Pamuk first achieved international fame with Beyaz kale (1985; The White Castle), his third novel, which explores the nature of identity…

Sesson Shūkei was a Japanese artist who was the most distinguished and individualistic talent among the numerous painters who worked in the style of Sesshū, the 15th-century artist considered the greatest of the Japanese suiboku-ga (“water-ink”) painters. Sesson was a monk of the Sōtō sect of

bokuseki: …Zen monks Musō Soseki (1275–1351), Sesson Yūbai (1290–1346), and Tesshū Tokusai (fl. 1342–66).

Sestao, town, Vizcaya provincia (province), in the comunidad autónoma (autonomous community) of Basque Country, northern Spain. Long a part of the mancomunidad (union of municipalities) of Somorrostro Valley, Sestao became independent in 1805. It has shipyards and ironworks and steelworks, supplied

aureus: (In 89 bc, the sestertius, equal to one-quarter of a denarius, replaced the bronze ass as a unit of account.) In Constantine’s reform of ad 312, the aureus was replaced by the solidus as the basic monetary unit.

aureus: (In 89 bc, the sestertius, equal to one-quarter of a denarius, replaced the bronze ass as a unit of account.) In Constantine’s reform of ad 312, the aureus was replaced by the solidus as the basic monetary unit.

African literature: Afrikaans: The Sestigers (“Sixtyers,” or writers of the 1960s) attempted to do for prose what the Dertigers had done for poetry. Jan Rabie, Etienne Leroux, Dolf van Niekerk, André P. Brink, Abraham de Vries, and Chris Barnard experimented with the novel and moved into areas largely forbidden…

sestina, elaborate verse form employed by medieval Provençal and Italian, and occasional modern, poets. It consists, in its pure medieval form, of six stanzas of blank verse, each of six lines—hence the name. The final words of the first stanza appear in varied order in the other five, the order

Ernst Krenek: In Sestina (1957) he used total serialization, in which not only pitch but all musical elements are arranged in basic series. In his Piano Concerto No. 3 (1946) he temporarily abandoned the 12-tone method for traditional tonality; his Symphony No. 5 (1950) is atonal but avoids…

Sesto San Giovanni, town, Lombardia (Lombardy) region, northern Italy. A northeastern industrial suburb of Milan, it has blast furnaces, foundries, glassworks, and aircraft assembly plants and manufactures railway and electrical equipment. With one of the largest concentrations of organized labour

exercise: Strength and endurance: …12 reps is called a set, and two or three sets of a given exercise are recommended for each training session. The average individual should perform strength and endurance training two to three days per week. Super circuit weight training refers to a program in which running or other aerobic…

set, in mathematics and logic, any collection of objects (elements), which may be mathematical (e.g., numbers and functions) or not. A set is commonly represented as a list of all its members enclosed in braces. The intuitive idea of a set is probably even older than that of number. Members of a