Word: styles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...road, A-7 fighter-bombers, in the air off the coast, were on call in case the column came under attack. When the options for evacuation were discussed in the White House, General George Brown, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, explained that a civilian-style helicopter ferry would be impossible; any helicopter evacuation would have to be a fullblown military undertaking−and that would be provocative...
...most unlikely settings in the world of opera is a Tudor mansion deep in the English countryside. For more than 40 summers the Glyndebourne Festival has set its own particular standards of impeccable musicianship and demanding dramatic style, displayed in its tiny (795-seat) opera house, like a masque in a princeling's private theater. The current season opened this month with a production of Verdi's Falstaff scaled to human size; Glyndebourne proves to be the perfect setting for the limpid musical economies of the composer's final opera...
Killing the Fun. It is as if violence in sports has found a parallel in the violation of style by a Jock Lit author like Novak, who has written with consider able grace and intelligence on the equally treacherous subject of American politics (Choosing Our King). For sports' new and embarrassing lovers are not so much wrong as excessive. The shrill use of "joy" and "fun" and "pleasure" in the titles and texts comes to sound as suspect as "honest" in the name of a used-car dealer. Jock Lit authors are so deadly serious they kill...
...honor accorded to so many who came long after him (W.H. Auden and T.S.Eliot, to name but two), largely because his popularity had declined before he had, a circumstance that occurred mainly as a result of his later novels, featuring what one critic described as "this very complex style . . . really quite tough going, with very long sentences," exemplified in books such as The Ambassadors, The Golden Bowl, and others; and how splendid that the honor was accorded him in a city (London) which had first repelled him as a raw, Hogarthian place, and more precisely, in a cathedral (Westminster Abbey...
...chaotic background of Sarmiento's own public life, serves as a vehicle for the statesman's ideas about education that were influenced by the American Horace Mann. Barba-Martin said his study of the two texts is quite "technical," yet when he speaks of Sarmiento he describes not the style of an author but "basically a man of essential ideas and will." One of the things that most appeals to Barba-Martin about Sarmiento is the president's own identification with "men who were doers." "He lived the idea of the Romantic man as a fact," Barba-Martin said...