Word: court
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Unlike Louis and Noland, Frankenthaler never worked in series; each picture was, to some degree, a new start. The pleasure was in the freshness. What is the central shape so comfily enclosed within the framing edges of Buddha's Court, 1964? A fat little figure, but vaguely so; the Rothko-like bars of color could indicate someone squatting in the lotus position. Yet it cannot have started from a figure: it is the sensation of calm presence that comes off the blues, in their association with tan and brown edges, that generates the "subject" of the painting. You still feel...
Khomeini's long rise to power began with a series of confrontations with the regime of the Shah. In 1962 he led a general strike of the clergy to protest reforms allowing witnesses in court to swear by any "divine book," instead of the Koran alone. By the spring of 1963 he was under house arrest for telling huge crowds at Qum that just a "flick of the finger" could sweep away the Shah. Soon after his release a few months later, Khomeini was arrested again, this time for fomenting riots against a modernization program that included land reform...
...Even as activist alumni continue their campaign to gain pro-divestment seats on the Board of Overseers, a Board committee, chaired by Boston Federal District Court Judge William G. Young '62, releases a report asking the University to take a more active role in its elections...
...More than 900 undergraduates travel to the March on Washington for abortion rights, joining between 300,000 and 600,000 demonstrators on the eve of the Supreme Court reconsideration of Roe v. Wade...
Curtis Bok, the president's father, was a Philadelphia judge known for his intellectual, patrician demeanor and an ability to remain above the city's machine politics. Some say his demanding court-room manner is reflected in his son's strict standards for evaluating arguments...