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Klee liked to make clear what sort of elements each painting was based on, as a composer states what key he is writing in. There were dot paintings, square paintings, crosshatch paintings and linear ones. The grammar of his compositions was always explicit but, at the same time, often surprising. He loved ruins, ideal scenery, viaducts, pyramids and everything that seemed both ancient and vulnerable: the stability of the pyramidal mountain in Ad Parnassum, 1932 (which translates as "To Parnassus," the mythical mountain of Apollo and the Muses), is decidedly undermined by being constructed from a faux mosaic of minuscule...
...Liang and Li now lead a grassroots movement, a hobby not recommended for the timorous. Li's son, a guard at a grammar school, fled Lanshan after hooligans beat him with metal bars. (Li suspects they were sent by the police.) According to Li, one local cop has warned that if she continues her activism, "he'll tear out my eyes. I told him when I'm dead, my family will carry on." Even as she spoke in her home with TIME, police dropped by her gate to ensure she hadn't gone to Beijing to protest at last week...
...passages or speedily filling in bubble sheets--do nothing to really expand brainpower or knowledge. For example, a Kaplan guide to the writing section of the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills counsels students not to dwell on spelling and punctuation: "If you write a deeply moving essay with atrocious grammar, you might still get a...passing score." Says Walt Haney, a testing expert at Boston College: "My main worry is that students will learn how to take tests but not how to think." Maria Aguilar, an eighth-grader at Robert J. Frank, shares the concern: "It's kind of boring...
Atwood shared anecdotes from her experience as a graduate student at Radcliffe and Harvard, and as a grammar teacher at the University of British Columbia, where she wrote one of her novels “on leftover blue-lined exam notebooks...
...little bit over the top with her grammar, but that's part of the fun of it. I think they're very common mistakes, especially when you have a really enthusiastic speaker like Junie B. who tends to speak as she's thinking and not have any lag time at all, which is part of my problem as well, so I identify with this...