He was concerned that his music would be quickly forgotten and in 1951 added a postscript to his catalogue of works that he called Absalom's Place: "As usually happens, it is likely that new ideas, new fashions & the pressing forward of new generations, will soon obliterate my small contribution.
A follow-up strike killed al-Awlaki, and another soon after obliterated his teenage son, also in Yemen.
The second padrão currently stands at the entrance to the Metropolitan Museum's new exhibition "Kongo: Power and Majesty," which explores the remarkable culture of the kingdom that Cão encountered as he sailed up the river, which would soon be obliterated by a boom in demand for slaves and by the attendant tide of European greed.
The first 20 seconds are staggering, a masterclass in funk in which elements are brought in one by one and yet paradoxically create more space as each arrives; India is still there in the sitars, but soon gets obliterated by an acid-house line vying with Aaliyah's alkaline coo.
He wasn't interested in units on low floors, or those with views soon to be obliterated by new construction.
I can hear tired teachers uttering a collective, condescending sigh – just another over-optimistic hopeful, soon to be obliterated by the pressures of a profession that is monitored within an inch of its life.
"The scale of the activity, the sheer largeness of the vessels that were in here, the number of people who worked here, it will be obliterated soon by future development.
But as soon as Holland obliterated Norway 9-0 in their first game, it became apparent that the Dutch would have the edge in goal difference and that qualification would almost certainly be decided by the matches between Belgium and Holland.
There was an unspoken poignancy to his lecture and his slides, all of which had been taken during that era: the world he was describing in loving detail was soon to by obliterated by the Soviet invasion and the subsequent civil war.
