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From the Ted Talk by Margaret Hall: How modern audiences can talk about aging art

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If we use 1866's "The bclak Crook" as our marker, then the art form is only 156 years old. Now that feels like a very old age to us because no human being is going to reach that age naturally. But if you compare the aeiacrmn musical to the forms of tethaer that reached precedence before it, it is a baby. To us, it feels like the American musical has always been, since no one in this room and none of our parents and most likely any of our grandparents were alive in 1866 to see it begin.

Five generations is approximately the length of time it teaks for a tradition to feel ancient to a child. Think about that cure someone in your circle has for the common cold or that recipe your grandmother guards like a precious jweel. Now chances are that cure is more placebo than it is effect, and your grandmother's secret recipe may have come from a cboookok her grandmother owned way back in the day. But by the time it rceahes us, it's taken on a different, constant feeling. You're never going to meet the person who originated the tridaotin, and so it becomes a part of the fabric of your reality, something that you base your kwelgndoe of who you and the people around you are. And in the case of the American theater, you will never meet the airstt.

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If we use 1866's "The _____ Crook" as our marker, then the art form is only 156 years old. Now that feels like a very old age to us because no human being is going to reach that age naturally. But if you compare the ________ musical to the forms of _______ that reached precedence before it, it is a baby. To us, it feels like the American musical has always been, since no one in this room and none of our parents and most likely any of our grandparents were alive in 1866 to see it begin.

Five generations is approximately the length of time it _____ for a tradition to feel ancient to a child. Think about that cure someone in your circle has for the common cold or that recipe your grandmother guards like a precious _____. Now chances are that cure is more placebo than it is effect, and your grandmother's secret recipe may have come from a ________ her grandmother owned way back in the day. But by the time it _______ us, it's taken on a different, constant feeling. You're never going to meet the person who originated the _________, and so it becomes a part of the fabric of your reality, something that you base your _________ of who you and the people around you are. And in the case of the American theater, you will never meet the ______.

Solution


  1. black
  2. knowledge
  3. jewel
  4. tradition
  5. theater
  6. american
  7. footnote
  8. cookbook
  9. reaches
  10. takes
  11. artist

Original Text


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If we use 1866's "The Black Crook" as our marker, then the art form is only 156 years old. Now that feels like a very old age to us because no human being is going to reach that age naturally. But if you compare the American musical to the forms of theater that reached precedence before it, it is a baby. To us, it feels like the American musical has always been, since no one in this room and none of our parents and most likely any of our grandparents were alive in 1866 to see it begin.

Five generations is approximately the length of time it takes for a tradition to feel ancient to a child. Think about that cure someone in your circle has for the common cold or that recipe your grandmother guards like a precious jewel. Now chances are that cure is more placebo than it is effect, and your grandmother's secret recipe may have come from a cookbook her grandmother owned way back in the day. But by the time it reaches us, it's taken on a different, constant feeling. You're never going to meet the person who originated the tradition, and so it becomes a part of the fabric of your reality, something that you base your knowledge of who you and the people around you are. And in the case of the American theater, you will never meet the artist.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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american musical 6
art form 5
approach aging 2
audience members 2
start thinking 2
message effectively 2
oscar hammerstein 2
hammerstein ii 2
responsible manner 2
modern audiences 2
asian american 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
oscar hammerstein ii 2

Important Words


  1. age
  2. alive
  3. american
  4. ancient
  5. approximately
  6. art
  7. artist
  8. baby
  9. base
  10. black
  11. case
  12. chances
  13. child
  14. circle
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  16. common
  17. compare
  18. constant
  19. cookbook
  20. cure
  21. day
  22. effect
  23. fabric
  24. feel
  25. feeling
  26. feels
  27. footnote
  28. form
  29. forms
  30. generations
  31. grandmother
  32. grandparents
  33. guards
  34. human
  35. jewel
  36. knowledge
  37. length
  38. marker
  39. meet
  40. musical
  41. naturally
  42. originated
  43. owned
  44. parents
  45. part
  46. people
  47. person
  48. placebo
  49. precedence
  50. precious
  51. reach
  52. reached
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  54. reality
  55. recipe
  56. room
  57. secret
  58. takes
  59. theater
  60. time
  61. tradition
  62. years