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The most dramatic alteration to the original, Tudor court however remains the Victorian amendment of the north range, which involved the demolition of the original mediaeval chapel and the construction of a new, far larger set of buildings in the 1860s.
According to one scholar, this " was not only a dramatic change in the function of art, it was the context in which our present concept of art, what the literary critic M. H. Abrams called " art as such ", first began to take shape ", replacing a " construction model " where art theory concerned itself with how the maker created his work, with a " contemplation model " concerned with the effect of the finished work on a " lone perceiver " or viewer.
Post-war Britain was the stage for a tower block " building boom "; from the 1950s to the late 1970s there was a dramatic increase in tower block construction.
With the construction of Lake Hartwell in 1963, Lake Keowee in 1971, and Lake Jocassee in 1974, Seneca and the area saw dramatic changes.
The post-World War II population and building boom, followed by construction of gambling casinos in the Nevada part of the basin during the mid-1950s, and completion of the interstate highway links for the 1960 Winter Olympics held at Squaw Valley, resulted in a dramatic increase in development within the basin.
As a result, even when he is not writing a visual piece involving stage action, Birstwistle's music is frequently described as dramatic in construction.
Volcatius Sedigitus, the dramatic critic, places him first amongst the comic poets ; Varro credits him with pathos and skill in the construction of his plots ; Horace ( Epistles, ii.
As well, Adams drew 18 sample dailies ( three weeks ' continuity ) of a proposed dramatic serial, Tangent, about construction engineer Barnaby Peake, his college-student brother Jeff, and their teenaged sibling Chad, in 1965, but it was not syndicated.
The construction of many of these lines has resulted in the dramatic decline of short haul flights and automotive traffic between connected cities, such as the London-Paris-Brussels corridor, Madrid-Barcelona, as well as many other major lines.
It is in respect of literary quality Lyndsay's best work, and in dramatic construction and delineation of character it holds a high place in this genre.
It has been proved that the credit of having been the first to play so large a part in the history of the French stage belongs to Jean Chapelain ; but the laws of dramatic method and construction generally were codified by d ' Aubignac in his Pratique du théâtre.
The same concerns with plasticity, massing, dramatic effects and shadow and light is evident in the architectural work of Pietro da Cortona, illustrated by his design of Santi Luca e Martina ( construction began in 1635 ) with what was probably the first curved Baroque church facade in Rome.
Upon the construction of the Taekwondo Park, tourism, leisure and enterprise city, and Danone Co Ltd ’ s Muju plant, the industrial structure of Muju undergo a dramatic transformation.
The 1980s saw dramatic expansions of the medical center, new facilities for the business and engineering schools, and the construction of the Centennial Library.
The construction works were finished just in time for the city to witness some of the most dramatic events of the Time of Troubles.
Sachs had little idea of the essentials of dramatic construction or the nature of dramatic action.
He succeeds best in the short anecdotal Fastnachtsspiel or Shrovetide play, where characterization and humorous situation are of more importance than dramatic form or construction.
As with the principle of dramatic construction involved in the epic form of written drama amalgamated or what Brecht calls " non-Aristotelian drama ", the epic approach to play production utilizes a montage technique of fragmentation, contrast and contradiction, and interruptions.
It was all purely symbolic, since construction did not actually begin, but no one stated that openly, it was dramatic, and very successful.
This lively dramatic tradition led to the funding, in 1924, by Yale benefactor Edward S. Harkness, to establish the Department of Drama in the School of Fine Arts, and for the construction of the University Theatre, designed by James Gamble Rogers.
The return of millions of servicemen eager to take up their prewar lives led to a dramatic increase in new families, and this " baby boom " caused a surge in new mostly suburban home construction.
Clough was president of Georgia Tech from 1994 to 2008, during which he oversaw dramatic changes in the institute, including $ 1 billion in new construction, increased retention and graduation rates, a higher nationwide ranking and a much larger student body.
This era included dramatic increases in recreation use, timber sales, dam construction, campground construction, and wildlife management.

dramatic and stories
Herald photographer Stanley Forman received two Pulitzer Prizes consecutively in 1976 and 1977, the first being a dramatic shot of a young child falling in mid-air from her mother's arms on the upper stories of a burning apartment building to the waiting arms of firefighters below, and the latter ( known as " The soiling of Old Glory ") being of Ted Landsmark, an African American city official, being beaten with an American flag during Boston's school busing crisis.
Chaplin's childhood was fraught with poverty and hardship, prompting biographer David Robinson to describe his eventual trajectory as " the most dramatic of all the rags to riches stories ever told.
" News " today is virtually always dramatized, at least by pitting " one side " against another in the fictional journalistic concept that all stories must contain " both sides " ( as though reality could be reduced to two sides ) or by using more intensive dramatic developments similar to feature movies.
Between the 1960s and the late 1980s, as television news relegated newspaper reading to an occasional basis rather than daily, syndicators were abandoning long stories and urging cartoonists to switch to simple daily gags, or week-long " storylines " ( with six consecutive ( mostly unrelated ) strips following a same subject ), with longer storylines being used mainly on adventure-based and dramatic strips.
The general trend in the development of cinema, led from the United States, was towards using the newly developed specifically filmic devices for expression of the narrative content of film stories, and combining this with the standard dramatic structures already in use in commercial theatre.
Show Boat, West Side Story, Brigadoon, Sweeney Todd, Evita, The Light in the Piazza, The Phantom of the Opera and others tell dramatic stories through complex music and are now sometimes seen in opera houses.
Modern interest in the book has resulted in a number of dramatic adaptations and an abundance of novels and stories imitating Austen's memorable characters or themes.
Active membership is limited to professionally published authors in the genres of science fiction, fantasy, or horror ; the minimum qualification is the sale of one novel or dramatic script, or three short stories, to venues with certain minimum circulations or pay rates.
Although madrigals were initially dramatic settings of unrequited-love poetry or mythological stories in Italy, they were imported into England and merged with the more dancelike balletto, celebrating carefree songs of the seasons, or eating and drinking.
Following her death, six of her short stories were adapted by Shaftesbury Films into the dramatic anthology series The Shields Stories.
Along with Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda, the Poetic Edda is the most important extant source on Norse mythology and Germanic heroic legends, and from the early 19th century onwards has had a powerful influence on later Scandinavian literatures, not merely through the stories it contains but through the visionary force and dramatic quality of many of the poems.
On March 23, 1940, NBC Radio introduced a Saturday morning dramatic show called Lincoln Highway sponsored by Shinola Polish, which featured stories of life along the route.
Radio comedians Bob and Ray had a recurring routine lampooning the show, with stories that were presented as dramatic but were intentionally mundane, entitled " Tales calculated to put you in a state of ...
Collections of comic books that do not form a continuous story, anthologies or collections of loosely related pieces, and even non-fiction are stocked by libraries and bookstores as " graphic novels " ( similar to the manner in which dramatic stories are included in " comic " books ).
Asher proposed to call the disorder " Munchausen Syndrome ," commenting: " Like the famous Baron von Munchausen, the persons affected have always travelled widely ; and their stories, like those attributed to him, are both dramatic and untruthful.
Tieck's transition to Romanticism is seen in the series of plays and stories published under the title Volksmärchen von Peter Lebrecht ( 3 vols., 1797 ), a collection which contains the admirable fairy-tale Der blonde Eckbert, which seamlessly blends exploration of the paranoiac mind with the realm of the supernatural, and the witty dramatic satire on Berlin literary taste, Der gestiefelte Kater.
In this collection appeared the stories Der Runenberg, Die Elfen, Der Pokal, and the dramatic fairy tale, Fortunat.
Even more popular than the Jones series were the dramatic love stories in which she co-starred with Arthur Johnson.
As ticket sales declined, Colt realized that " serious " museum lectures were not what the people wanted to pay money to see and that it was dramatic stories of salvation and redemption the public craved.
The sudden arrest of the Templars, the conflicting stories about confessions, and the dramatic deaths by burning, generated many stories and legends about both the Order, and its last Grand Master.
Lane's editing skills brought the dramatic pacing, literary structure, and characterization needed to make the stories publishable in book form.
A check of film titles reveals that more film noir screenplays were adapted from works by Woolrich than any other crime novelist, and many of his stories were adapted during the 1940s for Suspense and other dramatic radio programs.
Summarized, the record there given compromises ~ 15 collections, including various editions of his works, 94 dramatic works, 236 poems 231 fables in verse, 19 addresses, 8 biographical articles, 15 stories, 14 articles depitcing manners and customs, 9 literary criticism, 3 dramatic criticism, 33 prologues, 22 notes and articles referring to " Don Quixote " 22 miscellaneous articles, and 9 works of different authors collected and annotated.

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