canon
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Hindoyan said the new season lineup was inspired by his dual goals of reanimating the operatic canon and honoring L.A.’s multicultural spirit — the season features selections from the American, Italian and French repertoires.
From Los Angeles Times
"Over 5 decades of work, Catherine earned her place in the canon of Canadian comedy," he wrote on X, formerly Twitter.
From Barron's
Those who followed drew upon their example to enrich and expand the canon during the subsequent decades.
Working with her own company in Lenox, which became a nationally renowned regional theater, or elsewhere around the country, she would direct 37 of Shakespeare’s plays—what she and many others consider the complete canon.
But they may feel that “Starfleet Academy” has more in common with “Harry Potter” and the rest of the kids-at-boarding-school stories, a canon that would seem to predate the Big Bang.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
