Word: split
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Lewis wrote in an e-mail message that COHL "did vote that the blocking group size should be reduced substantially; while the vote was not unanimous, it did not split along faculty-student lines...
Instead of friendly Bright, the Crimson now travel to the most hostile environment in all of college hockey--Cornell's Lynah Rink. The loss left Harvard tied for sixth place with Princeton. The two had split their season series, so it went to the next tiebreaker, wins against the top five, and the Tigers had the edge...
...conductor's baton comes to a dramatic halt. The orchestra's final note rings in the air. There is a split second of awed silence, then thunderous applause as the audience expresses its appreciation...
...there are relatively few modern productions of Luigi Pirandello's plays despite his highstature in the literary world. Pirandello wrote academic exercises more than he wrote plays, she told me, and so they're very hard to put on. My friend's language alone conveys the split between literature and drama: Pirandello's plays equal academic equal exercise equal work. So they can't be put on... pretended... played...
...fairness, this split between drama and literature is far from absolute. Playwrights as diverse (and widely performed) as Anton Chekhov, Samuel Beckett, and David Mamet are considered great writers in much the same way that Fyodor Dostoevsky, James Joyce, or Don DeLillo are highly regarded. But this doesn't erase the gulf between dramatic literature and other types of literature. Writing a play still seems fundamentally different than writing a novel or a poem for more than the obvious stylistic disparities. I have to believe there's still a lingering senseof this difference between work and play...