Bartok uses instruments both to underline words and to describe what an opera stage would be hard pressed to do.
In World War II, he said, he took to underlining words to insure the correct emphasis on the radio and developed his "jerky, labored way of speaking".
It actually became a thing for the writers because, when you're writing, very often you'll underline words and we stopped doing that with him because when we underlined a word he would emphasise any other word in the sentence.
As students read, have them underline words, phrases, quotes or lines that they find compelling, amusing, confusing or interesting related to the theme of Experimentation in Art (providing a thematic focus will limit random student responses).
Choose one recent New York Times article other than the article discussed in class and two articles from other publications, read them, and underline words that you think give an impression of bias or agenda on the writer's part.
Ask students to take out two writing implements of different color ink, or a pen and a pencil, and instruct them to underline words associated with conflict in one color, and circle words used to describe possible resolutions in the other color, as they read the editorial.
As their parents sat anxiously in a waiting room, five children were sharpening their test-taking skills in a tutoring center in TriBeCa, underlining words that might hold clues to the answers and crossing off the illogical multiple-choice options intended to trip them up.
We underlined words we thought might be perceived as "challenging".
And TV writers are even worse, they underline words and italicize them, and if the actor doesn't emphasize that word they cut the take.
