Word: amalgams
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There are a number of bright spots that help to color the play. The production used an amalgam of time periods for its costuming, designed by Khalda A. Ibrahim ’04 and Sylvia W. Houghteling ’06. Particularly effective was the portrayal of the gods as modern businessmen, with Athena (Cydney McQuillan-Grace ’06) carrying a briefcase and Poseidon (David V. Kimel ’05) recording the destruction of the Greeks on the “to-do” list of his personal digital assistant...
...states sent only written briefs. "The political knot," said Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini, "cannot be resolved with judicial opinions." As a result, the 19-member Palestinian delegation - backed by representatives from 12 mostly Muslim nations - had the floor to itself. At issue is Israel's controversial "barrier" - an amalgam of trenches, towers, concrete walls and barbed-wire fences that may eventually snake for as much as 750 km, dividing Palestinian territory on the West Bank from Israel. Inside the Peace Palace, Palestinian Ambassador to the U.N. Nasser al-Kidwa said the wall was not about security but about "entrenching...
Political canvassing is a quiet activity. Far away from the cheering crowds and deep-pocketed donors are hordes of volunteers walking the streets, knocking on doors and fueling the campaign from the ground level. These workers are a disparate bunch, an amalgam of college students, the unemployed and the elderly. It is a collective that can, on a warm January day in Charleston, build bonds between people who would not otherwise meet...
...discouraging. Having to intentionally carve out one’s own study of race theory from within a discipline that tends to dichotomize race—or having to intentionally cobble together one’s own study of the history of Asian-American marginalization and dehumanization from an amalgam of disciplines that tend to overlook their common linkages—would make for a far more robust learning experience. With those goals in mind, I believe having the Committee on Ethnic Studies to coordinate this sort of learning is a wonderful idea...
...hadn’t seemed particularly important at home, where, on various occasions I was mistaken for a Brazilian, an Irishwoman and a Russian. But I do not possess a true cultural identity. I am a mongrel—an improbable amalgam of Midwestern white trash and New York City Jew (which makes for an interesting holiday season, culinarily speaking). Back home, I took my status as a cultural chameleon in stride. In my eastern Massachusetts hometown, where your roots need to extend five generations before you’re counted as native, and where non-natives are branded...