master class

a small class for advanced students, especially a class in performance skills conducted by a distinguished musician.

QUIZZES

Test your memory on these verbal firecrackers from the week of June 29 to July 5!

Question 1 of 7

anchorite

First recorded in 1950–55

On Sunday evening, news broke that John Galliano would teach a 3-day master-class series at Parsons, The New School for Design.
Petition Filed Against John Galliano’s Parsons Class|Misty White Sidell|April 26, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Rape, like every other subject, can be the stuff of brilliant comedy; George Carlin proved as much in this master-class example.
Louis C.K. on Daniel Tosh’s Rape Joke: Are Comedy and Feminism Enemies?|Jennifer L. Pozner|July 18, 2012|DAILY BEAST
The entire nineteenth century is one long and terrible record of master-class exploitation inside the British Isles.
The American Empire|Scott Nearing
Read Boccaccio—it is the beginning of the master-class, immoral art.
The Journal of Leo Tolstoi (First Volume--1895-1899)|Leo Tolstoi

For now the master-class had torn the mask from its face, and revealed to the whole world what were its moral standards!
Jimmie Higgins|Upton Sinclair
The pamphlet found its way South, and was the cause of no little commotion among the master-class.
William Lloyd Garrison|Archibald H. Grimke
They wanted to go on, as they had always gone, opposing the master-class and paying no heed to talk about German agents.
Jimmie Higgins|Upton Sinclair