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  • publicity-shy reclusiveness, though other modern authors such as J.D. Salinger ... appearance. In his non-fiction work, The Art of the Novel, he said that ...
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  • in Europe, Campbell was introduced to modern art. He became particularly ... and that he wanted to study Sanskrit and Modern art in addition to Medieval ...
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  • dollars. Getty was also an avid collector of art and antiquities, and his collection ... in searching for oil, Getty utilized modern geological data and contemporary ...
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  • December 1, 1989) was an African American modern dancer, dance teacher and ... some of the founding choreographers of modern dance. It was a creative ...
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  • considered one of the two greatest early modern Japanese writers. After ... start of the Meiji Reformation, in Edo (modern-day Tokyo). His father, Naokatsu ...
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  • Cleary, Transmission of Light: Zen in the Art of Enlightenment by Zen Master ... Huike went to Yedu (Wade-Giles: Yeh-tu) (modern Henan) around 534 ...
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  • and a few others who created the field of modern literary criticism in the ... if criticism is a science as well as an art?” Frye launched the pursuit ...
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  • the adoption of ancient customs into modern life. Its members adopted ... the adoption of ancient customs into modern life. Its members included ...
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  • tailed eagle, being known as the Erne. The modern name "golden eagle" ... animal and often depicted eagles in their art (Berrin and Larco 1997). ...
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  • in 1676. Although he is not well-known in modern times, he distinguished himself ... is not typically produced in the modern theater, George Etherege ...
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  • music and gave performances of thoroughly modern works, including Béla Bartók ... as much as I could. The concern that my art was misused for propaganda ...
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  • songs, came into use as a name for the whole art in the context of written ... htm The Hindu- Focus on rural art] The Hindu (December 23, 2005 ...
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  • were temporary, their impact on not only the art world but the general public ... . Christo was shy and had a predilection for art. He received private art instruction ...
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  • into English had a profound effect on such modern poets as W.B. Yeats and Ezra ... Rachel encouraged their interest in writing and art. Of Jewish heritage ...
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  • Sir William Petty was the first modern writer to take note of division ... never attains a perfection in any particular art; and as his force and success ...
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  • the genesis of what would become the modern classical recording industry ... the old discs and over-dubbed them with a modern orchestra. Several previously ...
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  • although they are not always included by modern writers of Japanese "free ... Haiga, the combination of haiku and art, is nearly as old as haiku ...
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  • degree with his thesis The origins of modern lyric theater and his doctoral ... contents had appeared in the Revue d'Art Dramatique between 1900 and ...
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  • In the process, he pioneered modern educational practices that eventually ... of retaining Latin texts to teach the art of reading. De La Salle stressed ...
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  • well and creatively played—every bit as modern as any other jazz style. ... * Williams, Martin T. The art of jazz: essays on the nature and development ...
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