Word: canonizes
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GARCIA Lorca's Blood Wedding, easily the most famous play by the most famous 20th century Spanish writer, has by now surely earned a place in the Spanish theatrical canon analogous to that of Romeo and Juliet in the English cannon. Like Romeo and Juliet, Garcia Lorca's version of the classic theme of star-crossed lovers and feuding families is a poetic tragedy, rich in symbolic imagery and comic in scope...
Personal writers were introduced to the U.S. market last year by Magnavox, a division of North American Philips, and by Smith-Corona, a unit of SCM. These machines soon had competitors made by Amstrad, Panasonic and Canon. About 100,000 of the instruments were sold in 1986 for a total of about $70 million, mainly to small-business professionals, students and the work-at-home market. Overall U.S. sales figures are expected to reach 200,000 this year and 1 million by 1990. Total value of the personal-writer market by that time: an estimated $800 million...
...Reed established publishing companies intended to expand the idea of what texts and which authors make up the canon of American literature, a national literature which includes "Chicano and Chinese, Yiddish and Native American, Anglo-Saxon and Afro-American, multicolored and multivocal," says Reed...
Amazingly, Rockin' does seem to contain most of the essential (and extremely danceable) Edmunds canon, from his first hit, "I Hear You Knocking"--hence the clever album title--to his hits with Rockpile (his acclaimed 1980 collaboration with Lowe) to his synthesizer era. As a result, there are few surprises on this album, in terms of its choice of songs and their journeyman renditions...
Rose, by itself, is worth the price of this book; it is the most powerful entry in Dubus' impressive canon. Some decades down the road, enough justification will have cohered to call Rose a classic American story. And it is not, in truth, the product of a last worthless evening but of an artist in full control of his sympathies and skill...