Word: strove
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...first founders of the postmodern school of poetry known in the United States as the Language poets. Much of her original works of the 1970s period, including “Extremities” (1978) and “The Invention of Hunger” (1979), strove to allow the reader to create a personalized experience through verse. Even though her poetry addresses different topics now, many of the more recent poems shared at the reading had this same element. “I now have a son in his 20s, but when he was younger I ended up watching cartoons...
...Third” manages to succeed in an entirely new, albeit startling way.With a new attitude comes a new aesthetic, and it’s remarkable to hear how the band has matured since trip-hop’s heyday. While that music ultimately strove to bring a sort of hypnotic order to a combination of sampled and original material, here the band seems to revel in imperfection. The best example of this kind of self-conscious disruption is the first track, “Silence,” where a bizarre Portuguese radio monologue gives way to a primal...
...early days, Senor said he and his colleagues faced a deteriorating security situation as they strove to launch a reconstruction effort that lacked basic resources and skilled personnel...
...split three-tier system of licenses: one for basic driving privileges, one for U.S.-Canada border transit, and another federally accepted license that would comply with the REAL ID Act of 2005. The policy change aimed to improve road safety and lower insurance premiums. Even more importantly, the legislation strove to bring an estimated 500,000 otherwise law-abiding New Yorkers into the system and “out of the shadows.”Nativists opined that America’s borders would be dramatically less secure if undocumented immigrants were to acquire the de facto legitimacy that...
Despite its ambition of bringing the three plays together, “Beckett at 100,” produced by the Office for the Arts at Harvard, always strove to maintain a certain level of this un-theatricality. Scanlan, professor of the practice of theater in the Harvard’s English department, kept the works’ original media in mind in several key decisions, like setting the stage elements in specific geometric configurations and bringing in technology as a physical presence on stage. It was Scanlan’s innovative and creative interpretation of Beckett?...