Word: canon
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...Japan's camera makers are ready to try again, this time with improved technology and prices aimed at a broader consumer market. At the Photo Marketing Association's big annual trade show in Dallas this week, Sony and Canon will introduce a pair of palm-size, lightweight still-video cameras that will sell for less than $1,000. Each model can take and store up to 50 shots on erasable, reusable 2-in. floppy disks. When plugged into a television set, the new systems display images that are about as sharp as conventional TV pictures. They are expected to arrive...
Protesters succeeded in their effort to insert books by and about women and minorities into the canon by mobilizing broad support, Fuentes says. The Stanford faculty senate passed a revised program that will begin this fall...
...Canon 333.3, Code of Canon...
Henry Louis Gates, the preeminent literary scholar within Afro-American studies today according to many of his colleagues, last week took the stage in Boylston Auditorium to talk about the problems of canon formation within the Afro-American literary tradition...
This sounds like overstatement, and probably was. But Cheever, as he confided in another letter, believed that "interest is the first canon of aesthetics." Whatever he wrote about -- his work, his wife and children, his Labrador retrievers, his problems with alcohol and homosexuality -- he never forgot to keep his correspondent engaged and amused. Those who received his letters were lucky. This book extends the range of their good fortune...