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ossify [′äs·ə‚fī] (physiology) To form or turn into bone. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| But to describe these sequences at all necessarily ossifies them, since language can't account for their jittery kineticism (which is heightened by the momentum of Gordon's atonal, minimalist score). As he has pointed out to little avail, he is an admirer of Franklin Roosevelt as well Lyndon Johnson and knows, as his biography of Duplessis shows, what happens when tradition ossifies into tyranny. For example, essentialism, so implicit in his first two models, ossifies culture, denies its historical specificity and its pluralism at any given historical moment. |
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