Word: canonized
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...epithet, for days when I didn’t know better and didn’t know so much good music existed and didn’t know I would never ever be able to listen to everything because time marched on inexorably. When I imagined there was a canon of musical great works that was fixed, not one that kept growing (and that will keep growing). When I wrote down lyrics of my favorite songs on sheets of paper, as though imbuing those sheets with incantatory power. For days before I became more Catholic in my tastes, or before...
Mondrian has never been fully accepted by museum-goers, who often fail to apprecitate the subtlety of his manipulations of color and form. His home in the canon of modern art has also never been secure—Mondrian all to often is accused of being a mere designer...
...Fogg does not just restore Mondrian to a painter but to a Modern artist worthy of consistent inclusion in the canon...
...sent to The Crimson with the first novel of Bruno P. Maddox ’92: “Bruno was educated at Westminster School in London, then at Harvard University in America. He studied English, which at that time, the dying days of postmodernism, meant scouring the canon for coded references to genitalia and despite wildly inconsistent grades he was finally hailed as brilliant for his senior thesis on the use of adjectives in restaurant menus.” I suspect Maddox himself had a hand in writing that; publicists usually aren’t that irreverent...
...book collector and Harvard Law School (HLS) graduate has given the Law School nearly 1000 rare books, including many which form the canon of Anglo-American legal thought...