Word: brightness
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...that of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Mifflin, done in 1773. Mifflin was a rich young radical Whig of Quaker origins, who would become George Washington's aide-de-camp and, after the Revolution, Governor of Virginia. The portrait is very sober in color--browns, grays and silver, the only bright note being a red flower pinned to Sarah Mifflin's bodice. What is especially striking about it is the way it preserves Quaker ideas of matrimonial equality. Conventional 18th century portraits have the wife looking adoringly at the husband, who looks at you. Not here: it is Sarah who occupies...
...soar. But Vidal tells us that his third novel, The City and the Pillar, published in the unenlightened '40s and featuring an overtly homosexual love story, alienated the literary establishment and set him apart as a refugee in his own land. Later we follow him into the bright worlds of television and Hollywood, until he eventually takes refuge in the Old World of Ravello, in Italy, where he has lived for the past 30 years...
Ivins says it more literally: "Powell is not a very black man." She further says that Powell "is what is known in some circles as a light 'n' bright" and that the question of Powell's "cultural blackness" will come up. What is it, after all, to be black? Is it to be poor and oppressed? Is it to be uneducated and out of the realm of the political and cultural elite? Because if it is, then the black race shall remain forever oppressed, poor and uneducated...
After holding a mass for more than 80,000 people huddled in a driving rain last night in New Jersey's Giants Stadium, the Pontiff was up early this morning to travel to Queens. In the whipping wind and bright sunshine, the Pope greeted thousands for morning services at the famed Aqueduct racetrack: "Good morning. Yesterday evening, very strong rain. Today, very strong wind...
...have all these resources and all these bright people. I don't think that we pause enough to thank each other for what we do," Epps said. "This is an occasion that I hope will become part of the Harvard tradition--an event that brings Harvard students and faculty together...