Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There's a lot more to Frye's criticism; this is just a rough sketch. His elegantly straight-forward approach and his vast knowledge of literature is something you will have to experience in person. Perhaps the real beauty of Northrop Frye is that be can't be classified. As he says, "those who are incapable of distinguishing between a recognition of archetypes and a Procrustean methodology which forces everything into a prefabricated scheme would be well advised to leave the whole question alone." Since Frye is something of an archetype himself, maybe it's better to let him make...
Byzantine Operations. The most immediate question is how Onassis' enormous wealth, perhaps as little as $500 million, perhaps as great as $1 billion, is to be allocated among his heirs. His vast holdings included a bank, more than 50 tankers, Olympic Airways, which the Greek government has agreed in principle to buy, and a half-share of Manhattan's not-yet-completed Olympic Tower, whose 51 stories of offices and superluxurious apartments dwarf St. Patrick's Cathedral next door...
...youth, the effort to reconcile the truth of outdoor painting with his ambition to make "important pictures" on a Salon scale bore odd results, one of which is Women in the Garden. He set up this vast canvas (over 8 ft. high) in his garden and even had a trench dug to rest it in so that he could paint the top without having to teeter on a stool. Its tonal contrasts between the green gloom of the trees and the crisp white of the girls' dresses in the bleaching sun are a manifesto of early impressionism...
Handlin said the structure stretched under the pressures of a larger and more diverse academic community, "the expansion of knowledge and the knowledge industry," and vast injections of government money into the University "for reasons not relating to the advancement of academic pursuits...
...entirely reasonable price of one dollar, is an amazing compilation of the past-performance records of every horse running in races at various tracks on any given day. Horseplayers live and die by the immense amounts of information packed into it, basing selections and theories on its vast resources. Not surprisingly, It is the life blood of Beyer's formula's as well...