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As Shipton makes clear, there has never been a single ―authe
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As Shipton makes clear, there has never been a single ―authentic‖ style of jazz conclusively superior to all others. Louis Armstrong is the only figure whose stylistic innovations achieved anything like (i)_____ currency, and Armstrong himself, for all his extraordinary originality, was only one of a number of musicians who helped shape the language of early jazz. Accordingly, Shipton presents his history of jazz not as a(n) (ii)_____succession of great men but as an overlapping series of stylistic movements, each of which he describes with a(n) (iii)_____ of taste.
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| Blank (i) | Blank (ii) | Blank (iii) |
|---|---|---|
| depreciated | linear | circumscription |
| universal | divergent | exclusivity |
| parochial | interwoven | catholicity |
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Re: As Shipton makes clear, there has never been a single ―authe
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08 Dec 2019, 23:53
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1. This seems a good question to improve our text completion skills. The first blank requires a positive tone and hence only "universal" fits here.
2. The second blank requires something that is not "overlapping series of stylistic movements"; hence, interwoven is out. While divergent places stylistic movements in parallel, "linear" makes the context opposite to overlap and hence the latter suits well.
3. The third blank is the trickiest. While it requires a positive tone, there is a contention between exclusivity and catholicity. Having understood the earlier sentences well, we can say that it should support universal currency. Hence, only "catholicity" fits here well.
2. The second blank requires something that is not "overlapping series of stylistic movements"; hence, interwoven is out. While divergent places stylistic movements in parallel, "linear" makes the context opposite to overlap and hence the latter suits well.
3. The third blank is the trickiest. While it requires a positive tone, there is a contention between exclusivity and catholicity. Having understood the earlier sentences well, we can say that it should support universal currency. Hence, only "catholicity" fits here well.
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30 May 2021, 17:57
30 May 2021, 17:57
Hello Carcass
Could you please help with an explanation of the third blank?
I still don't understand why is he explaining it universally, I chose exclusivity because he is saying each of them are different.
Kind regards!
Could you please help with an explanation of the third blank?
I still don't understand why is he explaining it universally, I chose exclusivity because he is saying each of them are different.
Kind regards!
