Word: career
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Sagdeyev was already embarked on another project, one that could have ended his career. Called Vega, the mission was designed to approach and study Halley's comet. Sagdeyev chose to build Vega around the proven, off-the-shelf technology of the Venera probes. But he wanted the scientific instruments to be custom designed, even though the expertise was not available within the U.S.S.R. So he recruited scientists from nine countries, including the U.S., to join the project. That was unheard-of in security-conscious Soviet space circles. Recalls Sagdeyev: "Sometimes my opponents, in order to take over, were almost ready...
What indeed? Zurbaran was an artist of unquestioning Roman Catholic faith, whose entire career was spent devoutly illustrating the most rigid and minute dogmas of the monastic orders he worked for (Dominicans, Franciscans, shod and barefoot Mercedarians, Trinitarians, Hieronymites, Carthusians, Carmelites). Yet in no small irony he became a favorite of French anticlericals two centuries and more after his death. Even the surrealists, who hated the church on principle, liked him. Indeed there are Zurbarans whose pure literalness might strike a modern eye as surrealistic; for example, his figure of the Sicilian martyr St. Agatha daintily bearing on a platter...
...clay vessels as dense and grand as architecture, ritually arranged as though on an altar. Perhaps the most remarkable of all, usually exhibited at the National Gallery in London, is the life-size kneeling figure of St. Francis in Meditation, painted at the height of Zurbaran's career, in the late 1630s. This is not the St. Francis of earlier legend, warbling to the birds of Assisi about Brother Sun and Sister Moon. Spanish Catholicism in the 16th and 17th centuries invented a new St. Francis, a death-haunted monk whose images would force the faithful to think about their...
...incorrigibly in character and thereby reminding Clare of why she had left them and the South in the first place. Her only respite from what she calls "the ongoing theatricals of the family" is the companionship of her childhood friend Julia Richardson. Years earlier, Julia gave up a promising career as a historian and returned to Mountain City to teach in the local college, take care of her dying mother and then look after her father. These two women manifest the attraction of opposites. Clare has apparently broken free of her past and asserted her talent in the world...
...Colino decide to rip off his employer? A former Comsat associate describes Colino as "ambitious and manipulative" and bitter at not advancing more rapidly earlier in his career. An associate in Intelsat speculates that Colino thought he would make the organization "grow so fast they wouldn't miss the money." But they did, and a promising career self-destructed...