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 Feb 6 2010, 05:36 AM
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Advanced Member  Group: Coach Class Posts: 43 Joined: 9-September 09 From: Phoenixville, PA Member No.: 265  |
I am searching for the novels/plays (larger works) used by USAD in the early going - my students are interested in knowing what previous novels were used, and ADSIC only goes back to 1998, and 2001's info is missing. If anyone out there can help, I'd be very thankful.
-------------------- What's the difference between you and me? I'm not wearing hockey pants.
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Feb 6 2010, 05:41 AM
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 Dangerous like a fire in a nursing home Group: Yellow Perils Posts: 2,381 Joined: 1-May 09 From: Duke University Member No.: 48 |
Wasn't there a list here somewhere? Or was it the old board? Try searching around.
-------------------- And they are dancing, the board floor slamming under the jackboots and the fiddlers grinning hideously over their canted pieces. Towering over them all is the judge and he is naked dancing, his small feet lively and quick and now in doubletime and bowing to the ladies, huge and pale and hairless, like an enormous infant. He never sleeps, he says. He says he'll never die. He bows to the fiddlers and sashays backwards and throws back his head and laughs deep in his throat and he is a great favorite, the judge. He wafts his hat and the lunar dome of his skull passes palely under the lamps and he swings about and takes possession of one of the fiddles and he pirouettes and makes a pass, two passes, dancing and fiddling all at once. His feet are light and nimble. He never sleeps. He says that he will never die. He dances in light and in shadow and he is a great favorite. He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.
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Feb 6 2010, 07:02 AM
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Ah! A ruse! Group: Blue Man Group Posts: 306 Joined: 1-May 09 From: Nebraska Member No.: 21 |
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Feb 6 2010, 03:19 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Coach Class Posts: 43 Joined: 9-September 09 From: Phoenixville, PA Member No.: 265 |
How about that... of all places, Wikipedia has my answer. Go figure. :-) Thanks, madcap.
-------------------- What's the difference between you and me? I'm not wearing hockey pants.
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Feb 7 2010, 12:28 AM
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 Advanced Member Group: Coach Class Posts: 327 Joined: 10-May 09 From: Rockwall, Tx. Member No.: 157 |
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro was a novel during the '90's. I don't remember precisely when.
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Feb 7 2010, 04:13 AM
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Advanced Member Group: Coach Class Posts: 35 Joined: 1-May 09 From: Irving Nimitz Member No.: 76 |
QUOTE (Gear @ Feb 6 2010, 06:28 PM)  The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro was a novel during the '90's. I don't remember precisely when. '99, Gear, my junior year  .I know '91 one of the major works was the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey", as I was talking with Jackson about past topics today. That one isn't on the wiki yet. |
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Feb 7 2010, 04:59 AM
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Member Group: Coach Class Posts: 21 Joined: 26-June 09 Member No.: 220 |
It's really cool how this old info is getting collected and archived.
I'm hard pressed to recall exactly how it broke out year by year, but in 1990 and 1991 we covered these works that I can remember: The Great Gatsby The Sound and the Fury I think those were probably both 1990. Nova, by Samual Delany (science fiction, surely it was 1991) "Vaster Than Empires and More Slow", by Ursula K Leguin (a short selection poem, surely also in 1991) the movie, as Greg mentioned, in 1991 (pretty cool, huh, a movie? they should do that more often...at least, I'm pretty sure it was the movie...yeah, probably, because they included John Williams' soundtrack stuff in the Fine Arts category that year) I want to say that Death Comes for the Archbishop was in there somewhere, too, but I may be mistaken. There was definitely something Cather. USAD seems to really like Cather, and O'Keefe. This post has been edited by JSC: Feb 7 2010, 05:00 AM |
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Feb 7 2010, 05:43 PM
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 Advanced Member Group: Coach Class Posts: 62 Joined: 31-January 10 From: Alice, Texas Member No.: 425 |
QUOTE (JSC @ Feb 6 2010, 10:59 PM) It's really cool how this old info is getting collected and archived. I'm hard pressed to recall exactly how it broke out year by year, but in 1990 and 1991 we covered these works that I can remember: The Great Gatsby The Sound and the Fury I think those were probably both 1990. Nova, by Samual Delany (science fiction, surely it was 1991) "Vaster Than Empires and More Slow", by Ursula K Leguin (a short selection poem, surely also in 1991) the movie, as Greg mentioned, in 1991 (pretty cool, huh, a movie? they should do that more often...at least, I'm pretty sure it was the movie...yeah, probably, because they included John Williams' soundtrack stuff in the Fine Arts category that year) I want to say that Death Comes for the Archbishop was in there somewhere, too, but I may be mistaken. There was definitely something Cather. USAD seems to really like Cather, and O'Keefe. Death Comes for the Archbishop was the Lewis and Clark year unless they used it a second time before I was around in 97 -------------------- Joseph Eberhard, Ed.D.
AcaDec, Octathlon Coach Alice HS Pentathlon Coach WAMS Alice, Texas |
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Feb 7 2010, 06:33 PM
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Dangerous like a fire in a nursing home Group: Yellow Perils Posts: 2,381 Joined: 1-May 09 From: Duke University Member No.: 48 |
I remember seeing the old list and noticing that they used it several times.
-------------------- And they are dancing, the board floor slamming under the jackboots and the fiddlers grinning hideously over their canted pieces. Towering over them all is the judge and he is naked dancing, his small feet lively and quick and now in doubletime and bowing to the ladies, huge and pale and hairless, like an enormous infant. He never sleeps, he says. He says he'll never die. He bows to the fiddlers and sashays backwards and throws back his head and laughs deep in his throat and he is a great favorite, the judge. He wafts his hat and the lunar dome of his skull passes palely under the lamps and he swings about and takes possession of one of the fiddles and he pirouettes and makes a pass, two passes, dancing and fiddling all at once. His feet are light and nimble. He never sleeps. He says that he will never die. He dances in light and in shadow and he is a great favorite. He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.
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Feb 14 2010, 05:10 AM
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 Advanced Member Group: Coach Class Posts: 98 Joined: 14-May 09 From: Arizona Member No.: 168 |
It would help if I was more organized; I will try to find some stuff crammed into old boxes. I originally kept one copy of everything we've ever studied, but after 20 years of coaching the stuff is packed into various boxes all over school and home. I don't have much time to remember the past, because as soon as State is over with every year we start getting ready for the next year the very next day. No rest for the weary.
My first year coaching was the Nova novel. Wow; what a long time ago. I remember we read a book by Rachel Carson; I think it was Silent Spring. -------------------- Twenty years of coaching ACADEC
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