Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...being interviewed, Williams tended to repeat well-rehearsed witticisms. But the flavor is authentic, especially in such inverted cliches as "Symbols are just a way of saying something more directly" or "Miss Edwina (his mother) can best be described as a Prussian general -- an inefficient Prussian general." His phrase turning is ornamented $ with borrowings from other writers ("I like Dorothy Parker's line 'Scratch an actor and you'll find an actress' ") and fellow melancholics ("Tallulah said . . . 'If I had my life to live over again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner' "). The evening's reverberant themes...
...instrument as an individual; the Third paired them. In the Fourth Quartet, Carter finally has reunited two violins, viola and cello. In four movements that flow together seamlessly, the piece bristles with ferocious rhythmic difficulty: a five-note figure in the viola may be pitted against a nine-note phrase in the second violin. It takes nimble fingers to play this music and nimbler ears to follow...
Even though Dean Hudnut coined the phrase "post-modern" in 1946, the GSD was not associated with any of the movements that sought alternatives to Modernism in the late 1960s and 1970s...
Though the report was researched by a 21-member advisory panel, Bennett emphasized that it reflects his personal thinking. He dismissed any notion that elementary schools are menaced by "a rising tide of mediocrity," the much publicized phrase used in A Nation at Risk, a 1983 report on American high schools by a panel appointed by his predecessor, T.H. Bell. Bennett contended that primary schoolchildren are "getting better at basic skills" like reading, writing and arithmetic. But, he maintained, "when asked to begin applying these skills to the acquisition of more complex knowledge, usually around fourth grade, many begin...
Even though Dean Hudna coined the phrase "post-modern" in 1946, the GSD was not associated with any of the movements that sought alternatives to Modernism in the late 1960s and 1970s...