Word: elicited
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their arms, striking desolate poses and sighing for one Reginald Bunthorne: poet and poseurpar excellence. Bunthorne's dedication, you see, is not so much to his art as to himself. His aestheticism, which issues in a poetry devoted to colocynth and calomel, is mere affectation, a ploy designed to elicit the admiration of his gullible Victorian public...
...individual efforts inspired by music ("The doctor almost gave me up/ Till I heard that music/ Then I started to move") and touched objects ("This powder puff makes me think of your hair"). For one workshop, Koch and Farrell brought sea shells, seaweed and bags of sand to elicit sea poems ("I, the ocean/ So huge/ So powerful/ So rich"). Says Koch of his props: "The residents lived in such a deprived environment that if you brought in anything, they'd be inspired." By the final workshops, the students had progressed to more subtle subjects, such as their secret...
...America: Had I heard of Muhammad Ali? Did I have a car? A wife?, and about Tunisia: Had I been to this or that place? Did I like Tunisia more than America? His younger brother was alternately trying to engage me in a game of ball and trying to elicit mistakes in Arabic from me which would make him giggle uncontrollably...
...interpreted on Saturday night, justified its popularity. The piece featured Shumsky as violin soloist and conductor. The orchestra was extremely cut down, and resembled a sixteen piece Baroquesized chamber ensemble. The choice of music provided an excellent vehicle for Shumsky's awe-inspiring technical capability and his power to elicit clean, solid tone. The accompaniment by the chamber ensemble, especially in the final Allegro, had a shimmering, airy quality--one that marks a thoughtful interpretation of Italian Baroque music. Michael Curry, in particular, carried the obbligato lines to Shumsky's solo passages with crisp vitality...
Dean Fox told the meeting yesterday that other ways to elicit this information have failed. He said "attaching a dollar sign is a last-resort solution...