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More than a century ago, the Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen hiked down the mountain range at Kvitfjell. It was, he recalled in his play Peer Gynt, akin to riding a wild buck through "the wide and dizzy void...
...call to widespread contemplation is a noble one, something akin to trickle down consciousness, But more is required...
...show displays Frankenthaler's technique akin to "color field" painting, inspired by Jackson Pollock's "drip paintings." This method uses an unprimed canvas so the pigment seeps into the picture and creates a stain instead of sitting on top of the surface. Through this technique, Frankenthaler has explored the way colors relate both to the surface and to each other, an issue which has interested her throughout her entire career...
...Crossan, Jesus' deification was akin to the worship of Augustus Caesar -- a mixture of myth, propaganda and social convention. It was simply a thing that was done in the ancient Mediterranean world. Christ's pedigree -- his virgin birth in Bethlehem of Judea, home of his reputed ancestor King David -- is retrospective mythmaking by writers who had "already decided on the transcendental importance of the adult Jesus," Crossan says. The journey to Bethlehem from Nazareth, he adds, is "pure fiction, a creation of Luke's own imagination." He speculates that Jesus may not even have been Mary's firstborn and that...
Awarding Garza the Vice-Presidency on the basis of a minor technicality of parliamentary language was akin to awarding a proven thief his freedom on the basis of a minor typographical error in the arrest report; the difference is that under the law technicalities preserve freedom and the rights of the innocent, while under the council's decision technicalities preserve and reward ignorance, injustice and irresponsibility. Garza's "victory" is a hollow one at best, both personally and for the council as a whole; it serves as yet another reminder of UC ineptitude and casts a dark shadow over...