多选题Isadora Duncan's masterly writings on the dance reveal the depth of her
determination to create a lyric form of the art which was free of
characterization, storytelling, and the theatrical exhibition of skills. She
wished to discard the traditional methods and established vocabularies of such
dance forms as ballet and to explore the internal sources of human
expressiveness. She shunned bodily ornamentation and strove to use only the
natural movements of her body, undistorted by acrobatic exaggeration and
stimulated only by internal compulsion. In her recitals Duncan danced to the
music of Beethoven, Wagner, and Gluck, among others, but, contrary to popular
belief, she made no attempt to visualize or to interpret {{U}}the music{{/U}};
rather, {{U}}she simply relied on it to provide the inspiration for expressing
inner feelings through movement.{{/U}} She did not regard this use of music as
ideal, however, believing that she would someday dispense with music entirely.
That day never came. The author implies that Duncan relied on
music in her recitals in order to
A. interpret musical works solely by means of natural body movements.
B. foster the illusion that music serves as an inspiration for the
dance.
C. inspire the expression of inner feeling when she danced.
D. validate the public belief that music inspires the expression of feeling
through movement.
E. counter the public belief that she made no attempt to visualize
music.
多选题Although he felt that Steven was ______, Mark did not sense that Steven"s ill will amounted to outright ______.
多选题Believing that scientists should ______ the public about important scientific issues, marine ecologist Jane Lubchenco has urged the research community to abandon its usual ______ in favor of more effective communication.
多选题Some Tibetan nomads used yak butter as a ______, one that often took the place of money in commercial transactions.
多选题Patricia is so ______ that she is unable to tolerate others deviating in the least from rules and conventions.
多选题Biodemographer S. Jay Olshansky regards commercial products that promise to stop aging as ______, arguing that while these nostrums might possibly ______ some of aging"s superficial manifestations, they cannot touch the process at its core.
多选题Despairing that the performance of the chief executive would ever improve, the corporation"s board of directors took decisive action and ______ him.
多选题Although the rigors of ballet dancing are primarily ______, this art is also emotionally and spiritually ______.
多选题The Mona Lisa, shipped in a private cabin and received by important dignitaries, was treated more like ______ than a painting upon its arrival in the United States.
多选题Responding to criticism that the script was rambling and ______, the new screenwriter revised the dialogue for greater succinctness and ______.
多选题Though earlier anatomists had touched on the idea, Paul Broca was the first to ______ fully the modern notion that specific behaviors are controlled by particular areas of the human brain.
多选题The controversial tax fueled a sustained ______ that could not be ______ by the Prime Minister"s impassioned speeches.
多选题Soon after the first visitors arrived, increasing numbers of the residents of the remote island thought it possible that the outside world, instead of being ______, could be ______ and worth exploring.
多选题Because his themes and use of imagery are highly eccentric, painter Sigmar Polke is said to have ______ style.
多选题Because their previous supervisor had been especially ______ and understanding, the staff members were ______ the authoritarian style of the new director.
多选题In All God"s Children Need Traveling Shoes, author Maya Angelou uses ______, brief descriptive sketches, to provide ______ view of Ghana that clearly details the land and its people.
多选题Thomas Edison, who found collaboration essential, never fit the popular stereotype of the ______ inventor, struggling alone in a garret.
多选题Commentators suggested that many students of the 1950s were ______ radical politics because they saw nothing in American life against which they should revolt.
多选题The scientific organization ______ the newspaper for prominently covering the predictions of a psychic while ______ to report on a major research conference.
多选题When literary periods are defined on the basis of men's writing,
women's writing must be forcibly assimilated into an irrelevant grid: a
Renaissance that is not a renaissance for women, a Romantic period in which
women played very little part, a modernism with which women conflict.
Simultaneously, the history of women's writing has been suppressed, leaving
large, mysterious gaps in accounts of the development of various genres.
Feminist criticism is beginning to correct this situation. Margaret Anne Doody,
for example, suggests that during "the period between the death of Richardson
and the appearance of the novels of Scott and Austen", which has "been regarded
{{U}}as a dead period{{/U}}", late-eighteenth-century women writers actually
developed "the paradigm for women's fiction of the nineteenth century—something
hardly less than the paradigm of the nineteenth-century novel itself". Feminist
critics have also pointed out that the twentieth-century writer Virginia Woolf
belonged to a tradition other than modernism and that this tradition surfaces in
her work precisely where criticism has hitherto found obscurities, evasions,
implausibilities, and imperfections. The passage provides
information that answers which of the following questions?
A. In what tradition do feminist critics usually place Virginia Woolf?
B. What are the main themes of women's fiction of the nineteenth
century?
C. What events motivated the feminist reinterpretation of literary
history?
D. How has the period between Richardson's death and Scott's and Austen's
novels traditionally been regarded by critics?
E. How was the development of the nineteenth-century novel affected by
women's fiction in the same century?