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The depersonalization continued as the dancer was further metamorphosed by the play of lights upon his figure.
But Aristotle kept the principle of levels and even augmented it by describing in the Poetics what kinds of character and action must be imitated if the play is to be a vehicle of serious and important human truths.
In describing it to Professor Baker after it had been chosen for production, he defended his great array of characters by declaring that he had included that many not because `` I didn't know how to save paint '', but because the play required them.
This huge hulk played the guitar and he would take it along on our walks and play for us as we sat alone in the woods or by the stream.
I refer to the notion that the structure of society is a microcosm of the cosmic design and that history conforms to patterns of justice and chastisement as if it were a morality play set in motion by the gods for our instruction.
It may be thought unfortunate that he was called on entirely by accident to perform, if again we may trust the opening of the oratio, for it marks the beginning for us of his use of his peculiar form of witty word play that even in this Latin banter has in it the unmistakable element of viciousness and an almost sadistic delight in verbally tormenting an adversary.
-- since, as Courtenay says, `` Nobody should play with lives the way we do unless he's motivated by the highest ideals ''.
The Air Force's, and the game's, final play, was a long pass by quarterback Bob McNaughton which Gannon intercepted on his own 44 and returned 22 yards.
He got hit from the blind side by the split end coming back on the second play of the game.
This year, I am told, the CBS network will continue to abide by the rule but NBC will play to a conclusion here.
Music for dancing will be furnished by Allen Uhles and his orchestra, who will play each Saturday during June.
Despite efforts by Washington last week to play down the significance of the meeting, it clearly was going to be one of the crucial encounters of the cold war.
It is into this household, one eroded by irritations that have tortured the souls out of its people, that George Dillon enters at the beginning of the play.
Given a small ball or marbles, he would invent games and play by himself for hours.
In Euripides ' play Ion, Apollo fathered Ion by Creusa, wife of Xuthus.
As the 6502 by itself was too slow to control both the game play and the vector hardware at the same time, the latter task was delegated to the DVG.
Northern ( and British ) readers recoiled in anger at the horrors of slavery through the novel and play Uncle Tom ’ s Cabin ( 1852 ) by abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe.
His reception remained warmer in America than Britain, and he continued to publish novels and short stories, but by the late 1930s the audience for Milne's grown-up writing had largely vanished: he observed bitterly in his autobiography that a critic had said that the hero of his latest play (" God help it ") was simply " Christopher Robin grown up ... what an obsession with me children are become!
In the 1986 TV play, Murder by the Book, Christie herself ( Dame Peggy Ashcroft ) murdered one of her fictional-turned-real characters, Poirot.
He appeared on the West End in 1928 in the play Alibi which had been adapted by Michael Morton from the novel The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.
In the 1940s, Joan appeared on-stage in an Agatha Christie play, Appointment with Death, which was seen by Christie who wrote in a note to her, " I hope one day you will play my dear Miss Marple ".
Spassky won the first game as Black in good style, but tenacious, aggressive play from Karpov secured him overall victory by + 4 − 1 = 6.
The Ashes featured in the film The Final Test, released in 1953, based on a television play by Terence Rattigan.
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Its great natural strength and situation, not far from the mouth of the Sis pass, and near the great road which debouched from the Cilician Gates, made Anazarbus play a considerable part in the struggles between the Byzantine Empire and the early Muslim invaders.
Salieri is characterized as both in awe of and insanely jealous of Mozart, going so far as to renounce God for blessing his adversary ; " Amadeus " means love of God, or God's love, and the play can be said to be about God-given talent, or the lack thereof: Salieri is hospitalized in a mental institution, where he announces himself as " the Patron Saint of mediocrity ".
Knowledge of a burn card might be marginally useful, such as knowing there is one less Ace in the deck, but far less so than having it in play.
Haydn, having worked for over a decade as the music director for a prince, had far more resources and scope for composing than most and also the ability to shape the forces that would play his music.
A second difficulty might be the ability of minor parties to play " kingmaker " and, particularly in close elections, gain far more for their support than their vote would otherwise indicate.
In fiction, the idea dates back at least as far as Karel &# 268 ; apek's 1921 play R. U. R.
" Attacking " balls on the boundary line to bring them into play is thus far more challenging.
And in the top of the fifth inning, second baseman Bill Wambsganss executed the first ( and only, so far ) unassisted triple play in World Series history, in fact the only Series triple play of any kind.
Each league used a different approach: Canadian football, which adopted the forward pass and the end zones in 1929 ( far later than the Americans ), merely appended 20-to 25-yard end zones to the ends of the existing 110-yard field, leaving the goal posts on the goal line and creating a much larger field of play.
Such a play is " insured " against all lower pairs, but far too often player with a lower pair calls at expensive times only to make sure he or she is not bluffed.
* " It may, perhaps, be embarrassing for a solitary man to walk across a wide quadrangle under a fire of glances from a collection of collegiate females ; but it is child's play compared, for example, with the long trek from the pavilion at Lord's to the far end of the pitch, with five wickets down and ninety needed to save the follow-on.
By far the strongest hereditary claim was that of Edgar the Ætheling, but his youth and apparent lack of powerful supporters caused him to be passed over, and he did not play a major part in the struggles of 1066, though he was made king for a short time by the Witan after the death of Harold Godwinson.
However, because many Intellivision games had been designed for users to play by feeling the buttons without looking down, some of these games were far less playable on Intellivision II.
Depending on the music mix, it can play either relatively recent classic country tunes from the 1970s to the 1990s ( generally more favorable to advertisers ) or can span all the way back to the 1920s, thus playing music far older than almost any other radio format available.
Computer models suggest that collisions of cometary debris during the formation period play a far greater role than was previously thought.
Furthermore, Veal argues, the only explanation for the verbal parallels with the English translation of 1582 would be that the translator saw the play performed and echoed it in his translation, which he describes as " not an impossible theory but far from a plausible one.
The Sex Pistols, originally scheduled to play, were dropped by the organizers who said the band had gone " too far " in demanding top billing and certain amenities ; The Clash backed out in solidarity.
Since girls could play no role in the ministry, and since grammar schools were designed to “ instruct youth so far as they may be fited for the university ,” Latin grammar schools did not accept girls ( nor did Harvard ).
Slater, “ these … prologues … have a far more important function than merely to provide information .” Another way in which the servus callidus asserts his power over the play — specifically the other characters in the playis through his use of the imperative mood.
All three teams brought new styles of play, fitness levels and tactics, and were far more successful than critics had expected.
The Revolution went as far as to suppress the Bar, arguing that forensic rhetoric did disservice to a rational system of justice, by allowing fallacies and emotions to come into play.
Seleucus went as far as India, where after two years of war he reached an agreement with Chandragupta Maurya, in which he exchanged his eastern territories for a considerable force of 500 war elephants, which would play a decisive role at Ipsus ( 301 BC ).
The move from Yuma to Peoria was very controversial, but was defended by the team as a reflection on the low quality of facilities in Yuma and the long travel necessary to play against other Arizona-based Spring Training teams ( whose sites were all in the Phoenix and Tucson areas, both rather far from Yuma ).

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