Milosz's poetry touches on the war years in a guarded, reticent voice of glancing memory and veiled allusion.
The Nobel laureate died in June, but the voice of Small Memories is so immediate, genial and full of simple affection for the boy he was, that reading it feels very much like sharing a fireside with a talkative uncle.
This is a paradigm, it seems, of both life and playwriting, in which the dramatist fashions an event from his interior world, haunted as it is by scenes, voices, and fragments of memory.
Her plaintive voice carries concise tales of memory and disillusionment.
She knows how to tell a story in a handful of ballad or country-rock verses; her plaintive voice carries concise tales of memory and disillusionment.
But creating a computer program to recognize and respond to the human voice requires enormous amounts of memory and processing power, so most early attempts to codify and process speech ended in frustration.
As the faces of the dancers fill the screen (the quality of the animation, by Vita Berezina-Blackburn, and the video, by Maya Ciarrocchi, is remarkably vivid), the disembodied voice continues to offer snippets of memory and reflections about the past.
The voice recorder has two hours of memory, while the data recorder has 25 hours.
Simply put, it would be the silencing of free voices and a blotting out of memory.
As Safire's voice fades with the mystic chords of memory, American politics now wants for a similarly skilled and vital lexicographer.
