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...overwhelming U.S. power continues to pulsate with precision. What have these desperate people achieved apart from wanton murder? It is not only Americans they have killed. So many have perished from all kinds of diverse backgrounds who had come to work in those beautiful buildings which represented some abstract future. They have put the entire world on edge. But they may have distanced sympathetic people away from their cause. They may even unwittingly have provided some unexpected justification for the brutal Israeli occupation of Arab lands. That is the law of unpredictable results in history...
...didn’t really want the answers to these questions.” There is promise in her recollections, but they seem to stop there. Gornick never provides any quotes or passages from her book, and without a grounding in the text, her descriptions sound too theoretical and abstract. Gornick later describes a more successful attempt at personal narration—a memoir about herself as a child, her mother and a woman who lived next door to them. This attempt was more successful because she had begun to realize the importance of understanding just who was telling...
...semester will try to incorporate current events more explicitly into the curriculum. Bear F. Braumoeller, an assistant professor teaching the Government seminar “International Relations Theory,” said in an e-mail he hopes to use the current situation as a concrete example of the abstract concepts in his course...
...WaterFire” is one of over 75 exhibitions that make up the 49th International Exhibition of Art of the Venice Biennale. The Biennale is a rare event in the art world; an abstract, fabulous idea that has both come to fruition and remained successful for over a hundred years. In 1895, an International Art Exhibition was held in Venice under the auspices of Mayor Riccardo Selvatico. For the first ten years art was exhibited in a single building, while now there are 30-odd pavilions and numerous off-site exhibition spaces. Since the beginning, the Biennale has championed...
...hanging from a traditional crucifix, he painted a series of diamond-shaped canvases with a dense, rich red paint. Shades of yellow underpainting shine through the red pigments in spots, making his canvasses positively luminous. The Cathedral of Padre Pio rejected Richter’s works as being too abstract, but the Cathedral’s loss is Venice’s gain. When viewed in tandem with Titian’s Assunta—located in the nearby Friary—Richter’s Rhomba appears as the abstract embodiment of a truly divine light...