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None of these translations to screen and stage, however, dramatize the anarchy atthe conclusion of A Connecticut Yankee, which ends with the violent overthrow ofMorgan’s three-year-old progressive order and his return to the nineteenth century,where he apparently commits suicide after being labeled a lunatic for his incoherentbabblings about drawbridges and battlements.天道智思 You Get More thanGRE*4. The discovery that Haydn’s and Mozart’s symphonies were conducted duringtheirlifetimes by a pianist who played the chords to keep the orchestra together has givenrise to early music recordings in which a piano can be heard obtrusively in theforeground, despite evidence indicating that the orchestral piano was virtuallyinaudible to audiences at eighteenth-century concerts and was dropped as musicallyunnecessary when a better way to beat time was found.*5. In what, as one reviewer put it, was “clearly intended to be a realistic novel,”many reviewers perceived violations of the conventions of the realistic novel form,pointing out variously that late in the book, the narrator protagonist Celie and herfriends are propelled toward a happy ending with more velocity than credibility, thatthe letters from Nettie to her sister Celie intrude into the middle of the main actionwith little motivation or warrant, and that the device of Celie’s letters to God isespecially unrealistic inasmuch as it forgoes the concretizing details that traditionallyhave given the epistolary novel (that is, a novel composed of letters) its peculiarverisimilitude: the ruses to enable mailing letters, the cache, and especially the lettersreceived in return.天道智思 You Get More thanGRE6. Readers of African American autobiography then and now have too readilyaccepted the presumption of these eighteenth- and nineteenth-century editors thatexperiential facts recounted orally could be recorded and sorted by anamanuensis-editor, taken out of their original contexts, and then published witheditorial prefaces, footnotes, and appended commentary, all without compromisingthe validity of the narrative as a product of an African American consciousness.7. Thus, for instance, it may come as a shock to mathematicians to learn that theSchrodinger equation for the hydrogen atom is not a literally correct description ofthis atom, but only an approximation to a somewhat more correct equation takingaccount of spin, magnetic dipole, and relativistic effects; and that this correctedequation is itself only an imperfect approximation to an infinite set of quantumfield-theoretical equations.天道智思 You Get More thanGRE8. Islam, on the other hand, represented a radical breakaway from the Arab paganismthat preceded it; Islamic law is the result of an examination, from a religious angle, oflegal subject matter that was far from uniform, comprising as it did the variouscomponents of the laws of pre-Islamic Arabia and numerous legal elements takenover from the non-Arab peoples of the conquered territories.9. These questions are political in the sense that the debate over them will inevitablybe less an exploration of abstract matters in a spirit of disinterested inquiry than anacademic power struggle in which the careers and professional fortunes of manywomen scholars—only now entering the academic profession in substantialnumbers—will be at stake, and with them the chances for a distinctive contribution tohumanistic understanding, a contribution that might be an important influence againstsexism in our society.天道智思 You Get More thanGRE10. Calculations of the density of alloys based on Bernal-type models of the alloysmetal component agreed fairly well with the experimentally determined values frommeasurements on alloys consisting of a noble metal together with a metalloid, such asalloys of palladium and silicon, or alloys consisting of iron, phosphorus, and carbon,although small discrepancies remained.11. The traditional view supposes that the upper mantle of the earth behaves as aliquid when it is subjected to small forces for long periods and that differences intemperature under oceans and continents are sufficient to produce convection in themantle of the earth with rising convection currents under the mid-ocean ridges andsinking currents under the continents.天道智思 You Get More thanGRE12. While historians of literature have always been aware that writers work withinparticular traditions, the application of this notion to the history of political ideasforms a sharp contrast to the assumptions of the 1950s, when it was naively thoughtthat the close reading of a text by an analytic philosopher was sufficient to establishits meaning, even if the philosopher had no knowledge of the period of the text’scomposition.13. Many choose jobs entailing little challenge or responsibility or those offeringflexible scheduling, often available only in poorly paid positions, while other workingmothers, although willing and able to assume as much responsibility as peoplewithout children, find that their need to spend regular and predictable time with theirchildren inevitably causes them to lose career opportunities to those without suchdemands.天道智思 You Get More thanGRE14. Observing that species found on high ground are different from those on lowground and knowing that in the Amazon lowlands are drier than uplands, he proposedthat during the ice ages the Amazon lowlands became a near-desert arid plain;meanwhile, the more elevated regions became islands of moisture and hence served asrefuges for the fauna and flora of the rain