Word: styles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cornblit's playing style perfectly complements the short (7 points, v. 30-35 points in Spain) matches played for American bettors. With the emphasis on the killing shot in these truncated contests, Joey's fierce approach to the game is now imitated by younger players, Basque as well as American. He keeps in shape with a daily exercise regimen to relieve the strain of an old back injury and settles down twice a day for soothing sessions of Transcendental Meditation. The combination, he believes, should keep him at the top for another decade. To the dismay of opponents...
...books (The Classical Tradition, Juvenal the Satirist) and scores of essays, Highet analyzed the West's debt to ancient Greece and Rome. During three decades at Columbia University, the Scottish-born scholar (he became a U.S. citizen in 1951) won a devoted following by his stirring, animated classroom style, confirming his dictum that teaching does not need "quiet, weak men who want to creep into some little niche...
...supreme draftsmen in the history of the West. The show contains ten Rem brandt drawings, and to see them in the context of work by his more gifted students is to be reminded of the difficulties of attribution. They imitated just what, one would think, was inimitable in his style: Ferdinand Bol, for instance, got Rembrandt's quick hooking line down so pat that he reproduced it unconsciously. They could not, however, approach the beautiful, sure clarity with which Rem brandt set down, in a few streaks and slashes of bistre, a windmill facing the estuary from...
...concluding that homosexuals have a "distorted or insufficient belief in who they are." Even though all Christians sin in various ways, the minority felt that the church cannot afford to condone a practice that the Bible so clearly rejects: "Neither laypersons nor ministers are free to adopt a life-style of continuing, conscious, habitual and unrestricted sin in any area of their lives." Homosexual ordination, they agreed, would "set in motion both within the church and in society serious contradictions to the will of Christ...
...tradition and sentiment, are part of the mysterious emotional process by which the nation is healing itself from the bruises and fatigue accumulated during recent years. Those years produced, in numbing succession, the civil rights upheavals, riots, assassinations, the Viet Nam War, Watergate, oceans of porn and a life-style whose followers were seldom tempted to distinguish self-indulgence from self-realization...