Word: corpus
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...case you didn’t notice on Facebook, September 17th was the Constitution’s 220th birthday. Two days later, Senate Republicans narrowly blocked a vote on the Habeas Corpus Restoration Act, thoughtfully giving history teachers everywhere the chance to offer a more modern, nuanced definition of the Bill of Rights: a list of the liberties the government can never violate, unless, of course, Congress says that...
...From his very first book - 1957's The Mystic Masseur, about a deceitful guru - a dislike of fraudulence and "mimic men" has run through Naipaul's corpus, as it apparently does through his latest book, A Writer's People: Ways of Looking and Feeling. Naipaul's intention with this slim volume of essays is the continued unmasking of artifice and fabrication - not in a character or a society, but this time in writing. "There is a specificity to writing," Naipaul believes. "Certain settings, certain cultures, have to be written about in a certain way ... You cannot write about Nigerian tribal...
...somewhat drab, they show themselves as masterful mimics of the country music style in “Learnin’ to Love” and channel such artists as Cher, Led Zeppelin, David Bowie, Donovan, and The Doors in other tracks. As an album independent of the Weenian corpus, “La Cucaracha” isn’t bad. It’s quirky, it’s fun, and it rarely bores. It’s such a motley album that it would be difficult for anyone to dislike all of the tracks therein. Yet when compared...
...does your heritage affect your music? -Rudy Rodriguez, Corpus Christi, TexasIt influences everything that I do-being Puerto Rican and from New York. I think you can hear it in my music and in the choices that I make...
...unlikely, of course, that Yau would have conceived of his corpus in such solemn terms. Indeed, he once said that his interest in photography stemmed from the prize money that could be won in local competitions. A modest and laconic man, he played merely supporting roles for most of his career. As a stills photographer for movie companies in the 1960s, he was one of thousands of anonymous technicians in the service of a burgeoning entertainment industry. As the publisher and editor of Photo Tech magazine in the 1970s, and of Photo Art magazine from 1980, his days were spent...