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Lant Pritchett is an American development economist. He is the RISE Research Director at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford.

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Deric Ruttan Musical artist

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James Keith Pritchett is an association football player who represented New Zealand as a defender at both age group and senior international level. He is the son of former New Zealand manager Keith Pritchett.

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James Pigott Pritchett was an architect of London and York whose practice stretched from Lincolnshire to the Scottish borders.

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Cheap Imitation is a piece for solo piano by John Cage, composed in 1969. It is an indeterminate piece created using the I Ching and based, rhythmically, on Socrate by Erik Satie.

<i>Sonatas and Interludes</i> Musical works by John Cage

Sonatas and Interludes is a cycle of twenty pieces for prepared piano by American avant-garde composer John Cage (1912–1992). It was composed in 1946–48, shortly after Cage's introduction to Indian philosophy and the teachings of art historian Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, both of which became major influences on the composer's later work. Significantly more complex than his other works for prepared piano, Sonatas and Interludes is generally recognized as one of Cage's finest achievements.

Living Room Music is a musical composition by John Cage, composed in 1940. It is a quartet for unspecified instruments, all of which may be found in a living room of a typical house, hence the title.

Freeman Etudes are a set of etudes for solo violin composed by John Cage. Like the earlier Etudes Australes for piano, these works are incredibly complex, nearly impossible to perform, and represented for Cage the "practicality of the impossible" as an answer to the notion that resolving the world's political and social problems is impossible.

New York City teachers strike of 1968

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<i>Body of Work: A Collection of Hits</i> 2015 compilation album by Aaron Pritchett

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