Word: masterworks
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...kidnapped Iraqi weapons scientists—people whose chosen vocation is creating the very missiles and aerosols that our Department of Defense presumes to be pointed at us—are perhaps not the most likely to ’fess up the location of their alleged deadly masterwork. Does Donald H. Rumsfeld—and those in the White House, who the Times notes also approve of this plan—really think his forcibly-abducted songbirds will develop an instantaneous Stockholm Syndrome on American planes and start whistling the “Battle Hymn of the Republic?...
Nevertheless, your students need you here. The Department of Afro-American Studies has been your masterwork at Harvard, and it would be seriously damaged if you left. Your scholarship has been an inspiration both to your students and your colleagues. The work you have done for the last decade in bringing the best scholars from across the country to Harvard is truly amazing...
...crackling with insight and bravado. Using the wealthy Rackham clan as a focal point for his sprawling, gorgeous epic, Faber, like Dickens or Hardy, explores an era's secrets and social hypocrisy...A marvelous story of erotic love, sin, familial conflicts and class prejudice, this is a deeply entertaining masterwork that will hold readers captive until the final page. FORECAST: Harcourt executive editor Ann Patty calls this 'the first great 19th-century novel of the 21st century,' and she's right: it's just the sort of gorgeous Dickensian doorstopper that serious readers will cozy up with as the fall...
...acclaim of Griffith's masterwork made his virulent, derisive depiction of blacks all the more toxic - indeed, potentially epidemic. This was not simply a racist film; it was one whose brilliant storytelling technique lent plausibility and poignancy to images of crude Negroes in the Reconstruction Senate, and of a black man pursuing a white woman until, to save her virginity, she throws herself off a cliff. Viewers could believe that what they saw was not only historically but emotionally true. "Birth" not only taught moviegoers how to react to film narrative but what to think about blacks...
...second disc hearkens back to their previous effort, the masterwork concept album Metropolis Part 2: Scenes from a Memory. The second disc contains the title track of the album, and that’s it. Over 40 minutes long and divided into eight sections, it includes an overture with a full orchestra. “Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence” is an intense musical experience of the typical Dream Theater variety that deals with the phenomenon of inner anguish and turmoil in today’s seemingly content youth...