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Reality Check: A Postmodern Triptych
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D'ALEMBERT'S PRINCIPLE
A Novel in Three Panels
By Andrew Crumey
Picador. 203 pp. $21
This is a postmodern novel. More specifically, it's made up of a
novella, a doodad in the form of an account of interplanetary travel,
and a third narrative that, if it weren't already labeled as
postmodern, could best be described as a shaggy dog story.
Allegiance to a particular school of literary criticism is apt to
provoke strange zealotries and acrimonious feelings. Another mark of
much literary criticism is that it loves to state the obvious in a
fancy new way. (Concerning the jalapeno pepper: The seeds ...
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Gruber was true to family's musical past
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; Gruber was true to family's musical past...October 10, 2001 To say that Daniel L. Gruber came from a musical family is somewhat...s biggest claim to fame would be Gruber's great-great uncle, Franz Gruber, who wrote the music to the...
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Michael Gruber
Newspaper article from: Daily Record, The Wooster, OH
; WOOSTER -- Michael D. Gruber, 63, of Wooster, died Friday, Sept...son of Delbert and Virginia Weuthrick Gruber. On June 3, 1978, he married Dana...death by his father, and by siblings Franz Gruber and Lana Gruber. Memorial contributions...
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OBIT - PAINLEY, MERLE GRUBER
Newspaper article from: Roanoke Times & World News
; Merle Gruber Painley, 67, of Keswick, died Wednesday...was the daughter of the late Mathias Gruber and Ruth McLain Gruber. Merle has worked extensively in the...Way. Merle is a direct descendant of Franz Gruber, composer of the Christmas...
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Gruber, Strobl fastest in training as wind postpones Austrian qualification
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream
; ...Italy _ Austria's Christoph Gruber posted the fastest time in a...Strobl, Hermann Maier and Werner Franz are fighting over the three...Lauberhorn downhill two weeks ago. Franz is the only qualifying candidate...Strobl looked promising Tuesday, Franz was 15th, 1.54 back. "Before...
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Her heavenly peace; The folk hymn that has brought harmony to generations also brings composer's Wisconsin kin together
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; ...spirit of her great-great uncle, Franz Xaver Gruber, the village schoolteacher and...Salzach River in the Salzburg area. Franz Gruber, a schoolteacher and organist...according to an account written by Franz Gruber in 1854 and partially quoted...
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Omahan's ancestor wrote 'Silent Night' in 2 hours.
Newspaper article from: Omaha World-Herald (Omaha, NE)
; ...written by Mohr months before, Franz Gruber got to work. In less...hour and a half," said Dan Gruber, the children's pastor at...It's no wonder. The two Grubers are related. Dan Gruber, an Omaha native, is a distant relative of Franz Gruber, specifically his sixth...
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`Silent Night' Scores 175 Years in Austria
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...and his "Silent Night" composer, Franz Gruber. We traversed the state of Salzburg...snowswept miles to Arnsdorf where Gruber, his organist and friend, was teacher...tourists, Hallein will open the Franz X. Gruber Museum by Christmas...
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CHRISTMAS-SILENTNIGHT
News Wire article from: United Press International
; ...village schoolmaster and organist... Franz Gruber of the tiny church of St. Nikolaus...fire in his study. His friend, Franz Gruber, was waiting for him. Father...sheet of paper and showed them to Franz. Gruber gripped Father Mohr's...
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CHRISTMAS-SILENTNIGHT.
News Wire article from: United Press International
; ...village schoolmaster and organist... Franz Gruber of the tiny church of St. Nikolaus...fire in his study. His friend, Franz Gruber, was waiting for him. Father...sheet of paper and showed them to Franz. Gruber gripped Father Mohr's...
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'Silent Night' history, creators examined
Newspaper article from: Charleston Gazette
; ...Joseph Mohr and teacher/musician Franz Gruber. Those two combined their talents...There he met and became friends with Franz Gruber. Gruber was a teacher in...Father Mohr wrote the poem in 1816 and Franz Gruber did write the music on Christmas...
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