Word: contently
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite the numerous tragic events during her life, Harper Hines said she is content with her efforts to change the status...
Since the mid 1970s, artists have increasingly turned towards the human body as a subject, following years when criticism favored Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism. Both "Herb Ritts: Work" and "Face and Figure" illustrate this trend, yet Ritts' photographs tend to stress formal considerations over content. His celebrity portraits and even his riskier homoerotic photographs are all highly aestheticized, easily consumable images-- perfect for the sides of note pads, tote bags and mugs...
...former Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young points out, Connerly and his ilk quote King on a highly selective basis. They tout the passage from the "I have a dream" speech about judging his children not "by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." But they ignore an earlier passage in which King angrily declared, "When the architects of our Republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was the promise that all men, yes, black...
...oppressive, particularly the subtle ways in which Phil--she realizes in retrospect--condescended to her, damaged her self-esteem, made her content to be "the tail to his kite." She never wavered in her devotion to him, however, even when he had an affair with a young Newsweek stringer in the early '60s. By that time, his behavior was becoming more erratic, the result of a manic-depressive disorder that was treated by a psychiatrist who "did more harm than good," she says, recommending existentialist philosophy in lieu of drugs. Finally, on the day he returned home after a stay...
...Church presently has no policy pertaining to blessing ceremonies for same-sex unions. Despite the lack of any official position, though, the Board of Ministry, the administrative board that oversees religious institutions at Harvard, has denied requests by homosexual couples to have blessing ceremonies. The Church explains that the content and character of blessing ceremonies has not yet been determined, and that they could not possibly conduct ceremonies of such an amorphous nature, as Memorial Church adheres to a strict policy of only presiding over weddings, funerals and memorial services. Although the Church is not adverse to same-sex ceremonies...