Word: anton
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...Unlike many of its neighbors, Nepal was never colonized by the English or their language, but Upadhyay is hardly operating in a cultural vacuum. One of the first Nepali writers to publish fiction in the West, he has been called the "Buddhist Chekhov." He's not Anton Chekhov, but he is Buddhist, and the influence of the religion?observant, detached, cyclical?is richly apparent. Cycles are everywhere. Ramchandra's passion waxes and wanes. Even as he descends into recrimination, he sees his maturing teenage daughter succumbing to the same dangerous passion that undid him, and he is powerless to stop...
...perhaps the most striking illustration of the interaction between Harvard student poets, Anton V. Yakovlev ’03 explained that “The Instigator,” a character from his poem “Cityscape in the Summer,” was fashioned in response to the “The Charlatan,” a character in “The Treehouse Journal,” a poem written and performed by Jennifer L. Nelson...
...There’s a running joke that the Gamut is the enemy,” said Anton V. Yakovlev ’03, a member of both publications. “There’s a mythological competition that’s like legend. But I don’t think that it actually exists...
Mark S. Hruby ’78, the Spee’s graduate board secretary, declined to comment for this story, saying that the club’s matters were private. Graduate Board President Arthur C. Anton Jr. ’81 did not return a phone call...
...Agony in the Garden. The latter he deemed "unforgettable," adding that "long ago that same painting struck Pa the same way." Van Gogh found landscapes and rural scenes just as uplifting - first Ruisdael and Constable, and then his contemporaries from the Hague School, Josef Israëls, Matthijs Maris, Anton Mauve and their Barbizon-School cousins Charles-François Daubigny and Millet. This makes for a wonderful triple play here, cloud-filled skies sweeping over broad plains painted by three generations: Ruisdael's pastoral View of Haarlem with Bleaching Grounds, Georges Michel's barren and stormy Three Windmills...