The immense amount of interest that the new jazz had for the younger generation must have impressed him, and he began working toward the merger of jazz and poetry, as he had previously attempted the union of graphic art and poetry.

Seen in decorating circles of late is a renewed interest in an old art: embroidery.

The State Ballet of Rhode Island, the first incorporated group, was formed for the purpose of extending knowledge of the art of ballet in the Community, to promote interest in ballet performances, to contribute to the cultural life of the State, and to provide opportunity for gifted dance students who, for one reason or another, are unable to pursue a career and to develop others for the professional state ; ;

An amateur who dabbles in a field out of casual interest rather than as a profession or serious interest, or who possesses a general but superficial interest in any art or a branch of knowledge, is often referred to as a dilettante.

Also during his reign taxes were lightened ; literature, art and science were encouraged ; the lot of the soldiers was improved ; and, for the convenience of the people, loan offices were instituted for lending money at a moderate rate of interest.

Gauguin encouraged his growing interest in decorative art, an interest that led Maillol to take up tapestry design.

He acquired an interest in art from his father, Ulrich Altdorfer, who was a painter and miniaturist.

Abakan's sites of interest include Holy Transfiguration Cathedral, " Good Angel of Peace " sculpture, park of topiary art, and many others.

` Abdu ’ l-Bahá also took an interest in the art of horse riding and, as he grew, became a renowned rider.

Wired magazine, created by Louis Rossetto and Jane Metcalfe, mixes new technology, art, literature, and current topics in order to interest today ’ s cyberpunk fans, which Paula Yoo claims " proves that hardcore hackers, multimedia junkies, cyberpunks and cellular freaks are poised to take over the world.

Although artists working with other media have expressed interest in the concept, such as Roy Ascott, " cyberspace " in digital art is mostly used as a synonym for immersive virtual reality and remains more discussed than enacted.

This portraiture of gladiators has been the highest interest in art for many centuries now, but it was Gaius Terentius who began the practice of having pictures made of gladiatorial shows and exhibited in public ; in honour of his grandfather who had adopted him he provided thirty pairs of Gladiators in the Forum for three consecutive days, and exhibited a picture of the matches in the Grove of Diana.

Having shown an early interest in art, Reynolds was apprenticed in 1740 to the fashionable London portrait painter Thomas Hudson, who had also been born in Devon.

He combined experiments in his art and in the technique of mass production with an interest in improved roads, canals, schools and living conditions.

Karate schools began appearing across the world, catering to those with casual interest as well as those seeking a deeper study of the art.

Controversy erupted when Bengt, who has said he has " no interest in art and his grandfather's works ", terminated the standing agreement between the family and the Marlborough Gallery.

Much Latin writing reflects the Romans ' interest in rhetoric, the art of speaking and persuading.

The seal's principal figure is Minerva-a symbol appropriate for an organization created in the midst of the American Revolution and dedicated to the cultivation of every art and science to " advance the interest, honour, dignity, and happiness of a free, independent, and virtuous people.

Heavy interest in art, formal music, hobbies ( i. e., collecting ), or other non-mainstream, " obscure " interests is also perceived to fit the stereotype, as is obsession with a topic that would otherwise be mainstream ( such as a popular TV show, or sometimes even sports ).

The organization's stated primary purposes are " to advance the ideals and standards of professional cartooning in its many forms ", " to promote and foster a social, cultural and intellectual interchange among professional cartoonists of all types " and " to stimulate and encourage interest in and acceptance of the art of cartooning by aspiring cartoonists, students and the general public.

Politics ( from Greek politikos " of, for, or relating to citizens ") as a term is generally applied to the art or science of running governmental or state affairs, including behavior within civil governments, but also applies to institutions, fields, and special interest groups such as the corporate, academic, and religious segments of society.

Humphries said in his autobiography, My Life As Me, that he found Cook's lack of interest in art and literature off-putting.

The LINC proved to attract intense interest in the scientific community, and has since been referred to as the first real minicomputer, a machine that was small and inexpensive enough to be dedicated to a single task even in a small lab.

As suggested by the etymology of the word, one of the earliest reasons for interest in geometry was surveying, and certain practical results from Euclidean geometry, such as the right-angle property of the 3-4-5 triangle, were used long before they were proved formally.

For the 2008 season, the Ranger III carried visitors to / from Windigo on several occasions, this proved to be a failure and was discontinued after 4 trips due to lack of interest and extremely long crossing times.

All through the teens and twenties, he built the Publix Theatres Corporation, a mighty chain of nearly 2, 000 screens, ran two production studios, and became an early investor in radio, taking a 50 % interest in the new Columbia Broadcasting System in 1928 ( selling it within a few years ; this would not be the last time Paramount and CBS crossed paths, as time proved ).

These services, especially UDDI, have proved to be of far less interest, but an appreciation of them gives a more complete understanding of the expected role of SOAP compared to how web services have actually evolved.

In what proved to be a temporary retirement, Gibbs pursued an interest in NASCAR by founding Joe Gibbs Racing.

It was not until Erik Smit's private 1652 expedition aboard the Fortuna proved successful that interest in the West Indies ' trade grew into consideration of a new Danish colony.

Under this new law, the notice was only lawful where the landlord proved justified personal interest in the apartment.

The invasion proved the breaking point in Johnson's interest in journalism or politics – he returned to enlist in the US Army.

There is no special reason to think that Cavour now envisaged the unification of the rest of Italy under Piedmontese rule since these areas were of little interest economically and could be a financial burden, but events proved to have a life of their own.

He pursued a career in art, an interest that originated in his childhood talent for sculpture, and a venture which proved to be his most financially secure.

The 6th Duke had inherited Chatsworth fifteen years earlier and had previously shown little interest in improving the neglected garden, but he soon formed a productive and extravagantly funded partnership with Paxton, who proved to be the most innovative garden designer of his era, and remains the greatest single influence on Chatsworth's garden.

With the market proved by the earliest manufacturers, larger companies soon began to take interest, sometimes successfully ( Tandy Corporation, Hewlett-Packard ), sometimes not ( Texas Instruments, DEC ).

However, his chief interest proved to be medicine and, forsaking his original intention, he enrolled in the Toronto School of Medicine.

Though he did not complete this implementation, a mockup of the system proved sufficient to inspire interest in others.

The objective of Chavigny and Vergennes in Lisbon was to keep Portugal from entering the War of the Austrian Succession on the side of Britain, a task that proved relatively easy as the Portuguese had little interest in joining the war.

In 1898 Blackheath Barrow — a ring cairn monument situated above Cross Stone in Todmorden — was excavated and proved to be a site of " surpassing archaeological interest ", according to J. Lawton Russell, one of the men who carried out the excavation.

These lectures proved to be hugely popular among his students and were spread by word of mouth throughout all economic sectors of the society, including the middle and upper classes where interest in Shariati's teachings began to grow immensely.

Both problems proved difficult, but they never lost interest.

The central treasury proved unable to support such generosity, so in 1874, the ex-daimyo stipend was transformed into government bonds with a face value equivalent to five years ' worth of stipends, and paying five percent interest per year.

But PNT is a deep theorem, while Bertrand's Postulate can be stated more memorably and proved more easily, and also makes precise claims about what happens for small values of n. ( In addition, Chebyshev's theorem was proved before the PNT and so has historical interest.

After efforts to interest private investors proved fruitless, Daguerre went public with his invention in 1839.

Ring theory studies the structure of rings, their representations, or, in different language, modules, special classes of rings ( group rings, division rings, universal enveloping algebras ), as well as an array of properties that proved to be of interest both within the theory itself and for its applications, such as homological properties and polynomial identities.