His writings have drawn deeply upon the materials of his early experience.
Nick Adam Horovitzz), a freelance archivist, is organizing the materials of his late father-in-law, an editor.
Jones shows how Darwin, living a family life in the English countryside, was able to attain radical insights and experimental results from the materials of his garden and greenhouses and from the fields that surrounded his house.
The form of Flagg's tower top, and the materials of his extroverted lobby of colored marble, bronze and glass saucer-domes, reflected some of the stylistic preoccupations of his training at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
To this end, he embarks on four separate eating adventures, each of which starts at the very beginning — in the soil from which the raw materials of his dinners will emerge — and ends with a cooked, finished meal.
Gemma New led a lively performance of the piece, based on what Mr. Adams called the "faux materials" of his invented folk tune and a hoedown subtitled "Mad Cow" (complete with a defiant moo).
