In a book review of `` The Soviet Cultural Offensive '', he says, `` Long before the State Department organized its bureaucracy into an East-West Contacts Staff in order to wage a cultural counter-offensive within Soviet borders, the sharp cutting-edge of American culture had carved its mark across the Russian steppes, as when the enterprising promoters of ' Porgy And Bess ' overrode the State Department to carry the contemporary ' cultural warfare ' behind the enemy lines.

* Andrews, Tim " Raku: a review of contemporary work ". A. C. Black, London. 1994 ISBN 0-7136836-2

Chicago Tribune critic Chris Jones, noted in his review of the Broadway musical, " Bloody, Bloody, Andrew Jackson " that the hybrid had become the most viable of the contemporary formats.

His later novels, including the Book of Bebb series and Godric, received hearty praise ; in his 1980 review of Godric, Benjamin DeMott summed up a host of positive reviews, saying “ All on his own, Mr. Buechner has managed to reinvent projects of self-purification and of faith as piquant matter for contemporary fiction, producing in a single decade a quintet of books each of which is individual in concerns and knowledge, and notable for literary finish .” In 1982, author Reynolds Price greeted Buechner ’ s The Sacred Journey as “ a rich new vein for Buechner – a kind of detective autobiography ” and “ he result is a short but fascinating and, in its own terms, beautifully successful experiment .”

Jonathan Rosenbaum, in his review for the Chicago Reader, praised Holly Hunter's performance as " something of a revelation: her short, feisty, socially gauche, aggressive-compulsive character may be the most intricately layered portrait of a career woman that contemporary Hollywood has given us ".

A contemporary critic, in a broadly favourable review, wrote, " Bliss has wisely cleared his idiom of modern harmonic astringency.

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A rare surviving contemporary review by Guy Patin, a distinguished member of the Parisian medical faculty, indicates the considerable impact Religio Medici had upon the intelligentsia abroad:

According to a contemporary review in The Libertarian Forum, " Illich's advocacy of the free market in education is the bone in the throat that is choking the public educators.

Vincent Canby, in his review of the film for the New York Times, wrote: " Norma Rae is a seriously concerned contemporary drama, illuminated by some very good performances and one, Miss Field's, that is spectacular.

* A review of the book on Goldziher of the major contemporary scholar of his oeuvre, Róbert Simon:

According to Annette Pankratz, in her 2005 Modern Drama review of Steven Berkoff and the Theatre of Self-Performance, by Robert Cross, " Steven Berkoff is one of the major minor contemporary dramatists in Britain and – due to his self-fashioning as a bad boy of British theatre and the ensuing attention of the media – a phenomenon in his own right.

It was outside the contemporary laws, and its actions were never subject to judicial review or control.

This review panel then issued its own 24-page report ( PB 211-014, available from NTIS ), which concluded that " the 1960-63 Corvair compares favorably with contemporary vehicles used in the tests ... the handling and stability performance of the 1960-63 Corvair does not result in an abnormal potential for loss of control or rollover, and it is at least as good as the performance of some contemporary vehicles both foreign and domestic.

Doctor Who: The Television Companion ( by Howe and Walker, BBC Publishing, 1998 ) quotes a contemporary review ( from a fanzine ) that describes the dinosaur special effects thus: " After escaping they Doctor and Sarah came up against the first dinosaur and, oh dear, shades of Basil Brush!

This review panel concluded that " the 1960 – 63 Corvair compares favorably with contemporary vehicles used in the tests ... the handling and stability performance of the 1960 – 63 Corvair does not result in an abnormal potential for loss of control or rollover, and it is at least as good as the performance of some contemporary vehicles both foreign and domestic.

Beam writes that Fomenko and his colleagues were discovered by the Soviet scientific press in the early 1980s, leading to " a brief period of renown "; a contemporary review from the journal Questions of History complained, " Their constructions have nothing in common with Marxist historical science.

Known as the Carte româneascǎ de învăţătură (" Romanian book of learning ") or Pravila lui Vasile Lupu (" Vasile Lupu's code "), the document does not go against Byzantine tradition, being a translated review of customs ( and almost identical to its Wallachian contemporary equivalent ).

The UK publication Country Music People also gave her a five star review saying " As we lament the death of Slim Dusty, here is evidence that authentic, yet contemporary Australian bush country has not died with his passing.

After a review of contemporary news sources, Northwestern Law School professor James Lindgren claimed to have found news accounts that discussed spitting incidents.

New York Times film critic Vincent Canby gave it a rather negative review, concluding with, " This fascination, on the part of contemporary Japanese filmmakers, with the destruction of their land by fantastic, prehistoric forces only 20 years after Hiroshima, might be of interest to social historians.

" A review in The Los Angeles Times stated that " With Hard Boiled, John Woo shows himself to be the best director of contemporary action films anywhere.

The work was reviewed by three critics, who gave generally lukewarm or condemnatory reactions ; to date, no authenticated wholly positive contemporary review of the piece has been found.

Map of the Roman empire and contemporary indigenous Europe in AD 125, showing the location of the Bastarnae, divided into two groups.

An early 13th-century drawing by Matthew Paris showing contemporary warfare, including the use of castle s, crossbow men and Knight | mounted knights

He was a highly sophisticated contrapuntist, often using strict canonic techniques ; in addition, he used colorful sonorities, changes of meter between sections, and colorful chromaticism, showing an acquaintanceship with contemporary secular practice as well as the work of the Venetian School.

Map of the Roman empire and contemporary indigenous Europe in AD 125, showing the location of the Saxons in Northern Germany.

He wished to avoid making any conclusions due to the possible conflict with contemporary religious beliefs. Base of the Human brain | brain, showing optic chiasm a, cerebellum, olfactory bulb s, etc.

Map of the Roman empire and contemporary indigenous Europe in AD 125, showing the location of the Heruli at the Denmark | Danish islands.

Map showing the 1750 possessions of Britain ( pink and purple ), France ( blue ), and Spain ( orange ) in contemporary Canada and the United States.

The South Bank Exhibition included a Design Review, that presented " an illustrated record of contemporary achievement in British industry ", showing " the high standard of design and craftsmanship that has been reached in a wide range of British products.

Detail of a contemporary drawing of Edinburgh Castle under siege in 1573, showing the batteries constructed around it

Map of the Roman empire and contemporary indigenous Europe in AD 125, showing the location of the Thuringians in modern day Germany.

* Pictures from a contemporary mill, showing tapestries being woven on looms with Jacquard heads

The Storey Gallery, sited in the Storey Creative Industries Centre, is a contemporary art gallery showing work by international artists.

She is especially interested in showing how authors portrayed the many configurations of family relationships, from the early immigrant narratives of journeying to a new world, through novels that stress intergenerational conflicts, to contemporary works about the struggle of modern women to form nontraditional gender roles.

Through the early 1980s, the Lincoln was a movie theater showing first-run films and now hosts live theatrical performances and concerts while also showcasing classic, as well as contemporary, movies year-round.

The film does not directly address the contemporary suspicions that the Queen and Brown had had a sexual relationship and perhaps had even secretly married ( see the article on Brown ), though cartoons from the satirical magazine Punch are shown as being passed around in Parliament ( only one of the cartoons is revealed to the camera, showing an empty throne, with the sceptre lying unhanded across it ).

Two contemporary descriptions survive showing that this battle had an unparalleled reputation for its carnage.

James II is the first Scots monarch for whom a contemporary likeness has survived, in the form of a woodcut showing his birthmark on the face.

Sepia-tone photo from a contemporary 1901 postcard showing Tom Ketchum's decapitated body.

" Among the milestones on the orchestra's path to recovery were the premieres of Walton's Belshazzar's Feast ( 1930 ) and First Symphony ( 1934 ), showing the orchestra " capable of rising to the challenge of the most demanding contemporary scores " ( Morrison ).

The contemporary classification of the Polynesian languages began with certain observations by Andrew Pawley in 1966 based on shared innovations in phonology, vocabulary and grammar showing that the East Polynesian languages were more closely related to Samoan than they were to Tongan, calling Tongan and its nearby relative Niuean " Tongic " and Samoan and all other Polynesian languages of the study " Nuclear Polynesian ".

The movement edited a magazine and presented a series of radio programs showing their fundaments and works of contemporary music.

In 2007, contemporary hip-hop and R & B songs became more dance oriented, showing influences of Miami bass and techno, and are typically sped up to a " chipmunk " sound for faster tempos for dances such as Jooking, Wu-Tanging, and Bopping ( usually only done in Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach Counties in south Florida )

Tradition places Jews in contemporary southern Russia, Ukraine, Armenia, and Georgia since the Babylonian captivity, and records exist from the 4th century showing that there were Armenian cities possessing Jewish populations ranging from 10, 000 to 30, 000 along with substantial Jewish settlements in the Crimea.

Le Destin molestant les Anglois, contemporary caricature showing d ' Estaing presenting a palm frond to America

He is probably best regarded, as John Bowers writes, as a member of " that sizable group of unbeneficed clerks who formed the radical fringe of contemporary society ... the poorly shod Will is portrayed " y-robed in russet " traveling about the countryside, a crazed dissident showing no respect to his superiors.