Word: itemizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...oeuf en gelée, for two years voted "Menu-Item-Most -Likely-To-Be-Left-On-Plate" by my Intermediate French students, is enjoying new prestige...
...task of the Rules Committee to save the House from chaos by setting a "special rule" for each major item of legislation before it reaches the floor. The special rule imposes a limit on debate, and sometimes on amendments, even to the extent of forbidding any amendments at all. The committee has been known to revise bills to suit its pleasure before passing them along for a vote...
...Rarest item on the program was Sessions' 72-minute, one-act opera, The Trial of Lucullus, with a libretto originally written as a radio play by Germany's Bertolt Brecht. The unrelievedly dissonant work has to do with the plea of the Roman general Lucullus, for admission to the Elysian fields before a jury of citizens. Although it had several appealing orchestral passages and at least one rousing chorus, the opera for the most part is in what Sessions calls his "linear and severe" mood, with many of the vocal parts written in droning monotone...
...Item for Survival. Trouble is, the human brain, said Williams, is badly organized, inaccurate and slow. It is so complicated that to copy it artificially would be practically impossible. But, according to Williams, solving the problem of copying the brain is neither necessary nor desirable, since nature did not design it for intelligence. "The brain of man, like that of other vertebrates, is an item of random design to meet one basic purpose: survival. The fact that it has outthought things like saber-toothed tigers is no evidence that it is particularly apt for abstract thinking...
Comic Ghoul. Max Beerbohm remains the master among the parodists, although men of greater genius (e.g., Proust, who makes an appearance in French spoofing Balzac, and William Faulkner, in a rare item, parodying himself) have worked in this deceptive motley. Why the passion for parody among writers? Macdonald finds parody inherent in a mature culture; it is a way of digesting the past. Parody obviously demands that the original parodied should be well known to the reader, and this calls for a firmly held common culture. It persists today among the British as a form of "upper-class folk...