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Leon Kirchner; Harvard teacher wrote bold, daring music, won Pulitzer; at 90
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The distinguished American composer Leon Kirchner - who was also
an admired conductor and pianist, as well as a revered teacher for
almost three decades at Harvard University - died of heart failure
yesterday in his New York home. He was 90. .
Mr. Kirchner's music was bold and urgent, often charged with a
smoldering intensity and a powerful expressive drive. His Third
String Quartet won the Pulitzer Prize in 1967, and he was the
recipient of many of his field's highest honors.
"An artist must create a personal cosmos," he once declared, "a
verdant world in continuity with tradition." His ...
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Swinburne.
Magazine article from: Victorian Poetry
; ...This style was linked by contemporary critics with the Euphuism of Lyly and with a foreign, decadent mannerism believed to...VLC 30 [2002]: 455-482) and "The Death of Euphues: Euphuism and Decadence in Late-Victorian Literature" (ELT 45 [2002...
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Malek Museum to display rare manuscripts in Iranian cities.
News Wire article from: Mehr News Agency (MNA)
; ...of the Niavaran Cultural Historical Complex will host an exhibition of pictures of calligraphy artwork on the theme of the euphuisms of Imam Ali (AS). Aa A collection of manuscripts by Alaeddin Tabrizi, the court scribe of Shah Tahmasb Safavi, is on...
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Nineteenth-century musical agogics as an element in Gerard Manley Hopkin's prosody
Magazine article from: Comparative Literature
; ...used to read: he, I think, is a greater man. He was an accomplished rhythmist . . . He has a very fine style free from Euphuism."4 He was prepared to admit some debt to Dryden: "And my style tends always more towards Dryden. What is there in Dryden...
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Shakespeare's anxious epistemology: Love's Labor's Lost and Marlowe's Doctor Faustus.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Texas Studies in Literature and Language
; ...Labor's Lost as parodic--Frances Yates suggests that all "the various literary crazes of the day" come under fire: "euphuism, arcadianism, Gongorism, Guevarism, Petrarchism and the sonneteering fashion, the mania for proverbs and for strange Latinate...
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A ROSE BY ANY NAME ...
Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN)
; ...ELECTRONIC VERSION MAY DIFFER SLIGHTLY FROM THE PRINTED VERSION. Editorials/Our opinions There are two new new, and related, euphuisms making their appearance in San Francisco these days. Their newness is attested to by a group of journalists from all over...
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COLUMN: A lampoon on language
News Wire article from: University Wire
; ...things every day which, when you stop to think about it, make no sense what so ever. Our language is full of sayings, euphuisms and idioms which contradict one another at every corner. From little sayings on the mind, to expressions expressing how...
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Israel troops enter Bethlehem.
News Wire article from: United Press International
; ...looking into whether the blast was caused by a remotely detonated bomb. Israel has termed the event a "work accident," its euphuism for someone killed while working with a bomb. Israel's decision to send tanks and troops deeper into Palestinian areas comes...
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Israeli army enter Bethlehem, six dead.
News Wire article from: United Press International
; ...targets people suspected of carrying out attacks on Israeli interests. Israel has termed the event a "work accident," its euphuism for someone killed while working with a bomb. With tanks -- at least 30 according to Palestinian witnesses -- and troops...
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Love's Labor's Lost. (Public Theater, New York)
Magazine article from: The Nation
; ...one of the Bard's "problem plays," though the problem in this case is how to bring off its labored lampoons on Lyly's Euphuism, a vein of poetic excess known to us now primarily because of Shakespeare's burlesque. Freedman solves the problem by eliciting...
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ISRAEL TROOPS ENTER BETHLEHEM
News Wire article from: United Press International
; ...looking into whether the blast was caused by a remotely detonated bomb. Israel has termed the event a "work accident," its euphuism for someone killed while working with a bomb. Israel's decision to send tanks and troops deeper into Palestinian areas comes...
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