Word: masterworks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...masterwork--the best book in his field, and, in my opinion, the best single book on the topic, even though it was written more than 30 years ago," said Byrne Professor of Administrative Law Todd Rakoff...
Among the cruel ironies that have haunted the career of Indonesia's most acclaimed and influential writer, one stands out as especially grotesque. Pramoedya Ananta Toer's masterwork, four related novels known as the Buru Quartet, deals with the brutally oppressive Dutch rule of his country at the turn of the century; but the regime that burned his manuscripts and library, beat him so that he remains half deaf, jailed him for 14 years without charges or trial and still bans his books and restricts his travel is not Dutch but Indonesian...
...musical reaction to an East Asian region. Geographical discrepancies aside, the synthesis of Duke Ellington's traditional sound with the musical emanations from the Middle Last and India is a glorious one. The band on Friday night was able to bring out some of the richness of Ellington's masterwork without even approximating the infinitely intricate shades characteristic of the Ellington orchestra. All things considered, the band did an admirable job in performing this suite for the public. Such challenging parts as the piano once played by Duke, the lead trumpet once played by Cat Anderson, the baritone saxophone once...
...Unabomber's epistolary masterwork was almost literally a blockbuster. The New York Times, Washington Post and Penthouse magazine all received copies of a single-spaced, typewritten manuscript, 56 pages and 35,000 words long, titled Industrial Society and Its Future. This rambling manifesto, whose authenticity was quickly certified by the FBI, was essentially an indictment of a corrupt technocracy that, Unabomber charged, was crushing human freedom at the behest of a mysterious corporate and governmental alite. In April, Unabomber said he would end his killing spree if TIME, Newsweek or the New York Times would publish a lengthy article telling...
China suppresses The Blue Kite, a bold masterwork...