Word: master
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...grader that he knows a lot more than he actually does, the vague generality is the key device. A generality is a vague statement that means nothing by itself, but when placed in an essay on a specific subject might very well mean something to a grader. The true master of a generality is the man who can write a 10-page essay, which means nothing at all to him, and have it mean a great deal to anyone who reads it. The generality writer banks on the knowledge possessed by the grader, hoping the marker will read things into...
Even before pain sharpened his vision -- he was stricken with cancer of the spine in 1984 at the age of 51 -- Price was a master at creating characters others could live through, particularly strong-willed women, such as the heroine in his 1986 novel Kate Vaiden. This time Price focuses on two young men to tell his hypnotic tale of loss and redemption: Bridge Boatner, a famous painter who looks back at the summer of 1954, when he was a counselor at a camp in North Carolina; and Raphael Noren, a prematurely wise, otherworldly 14-year...
...heinous. Even I admit that. But every genre contains its large share of unconscionable work. One must really listen to a lot of music, selectively, in order to locate the treasures among the trash, the pieces that move the human soul time and again. Verdi is esteemed the master of opera, but many forget that the majority of his work never gets performed--because even opera fanatics know it to be atrocious. We don't judge Guiseppe on the basis of his many horrendous compositions, but on his masterpieces like La Boheme...
Every Hitchcock film has an unexpected twist. But last week the master of suspense's Rear Window was the subject of a legal surprise. In a 6-to-3 decision, the Supreme Court ruled that the 1983 rerelease of the 1954 classic infringed the copyright of the Cornell Woolrich story, It Had to Be Murder, on which the movie was based. After Woolrich's death, his estate renewed the story's copyright. In the majority opinion, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor wrote that the film could not be shown without permission from the current holder of the copyright, even though...
Since joining TIME in 1978, Hornik, who holds a master's degree in Russian studies from George Washington University, has spent much of his time exploring communist economics. He was our man in Warsaw from 1981 to 1983, when the drive for reform was flagging, and in Beijing from 1985 to 1987. "It has been the theme of my career," says Hornik, "that I go to these places where they try to reform but never quite make...