Word: extents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...could The Waste Land--and the sad poems, almost as peculiar, that followed it (from The Hollow Men to Little Gidding)--succeed to such an extent that by 1956 the University of Minnesota needed to stage his lecture there in a basketball arena? The astonishing growth of literacy between 1910 and 1940 certainly helps to explain the rise of an audience for modernist writing. But it was an audience chiefly of fiction readers. Fiction had claimed "real life," and in 1910 poetry was subsisting, for the most part, on vague appeals to nature and to God. Though from...
...perfect pitch and perfect rhythm. His improvised melodies and singing could be as lofty as a moon flight or as low-down as the blood drops of a street thug dying in the gutter. Like most of the great innovators in jazz, he was a small man. But the extent of his influence across jazz, across American music and around the world has such continuing stature that he is one of the few who can easily be mentioned with Stravinsky, Picasso and Joyce. His life was the embodiment of one who moves from rags to riches, from anonymity to internationally...
...greater number of students are "coming to Harvard to enjoy higher education to its fullest extent" which appears to lessen their willingness to espouse forceful ideologies and engage in controversial activities, Epps said...
...this is the extent of Faculty involvement; the final decision is left to Rudenstine with input from Knowles and the ad hoc committee...
Unlike her sedentary predecessors, she traveled throughout Ireland, at times fulfilling between 25 and 30 official engagements per week, exploiting the symbolic power of the office to its fullest extent...