Word: descending
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...itself is busy with a festival marking the last day of the Buddhist Lent. A monk in yellow sits cross-legged on a table, while children crouched in a circle burn incense. The smoke is supposed to fly to heaven in order to beckon their ancestors to descend and join them...
Only occasionally will Nabokov descend to biography or history or philosophy. Great art, says he, is sufficient unto itself. Nabokov is interested in words: what they sound like, and how they can be arranged. With words, the artist creates his own imaginary world, a world without values, ideas, or social relevance. For Nabokov, literature is a detective game: The reader tries of solve the word code and enter the imaginary world. Nabokov describes the sensual pleasure he finds in art: a certain tingling feeling in the spinal cord, he says. His cowering pupils are told over and over again that...
...Texans call R. and I.-ranching and investments. In a few minutes, 125 guests are scheduled to arrive for a dinner in Mimi's honor given by Gene Bishop, an old family friend and chairman of the Mercantile Texas Corp. Then, after dinner, another 1,200 people will descend on the club for the ball...
Professional leads will join another Harvard chorus this weekend as the Harvard Gilbert and Sullivan Society sings as chorus to the London Savoyards, a prestigious G&S ensemble on tour from England. After a Friday night engagement in Worcester, the Savoyards will descend on Sanders Theater (or theatre, depending on your loyalties) to perform selections from eight different operettas...
...inflation eases off, then housing prices may descend iron...