Word: crossing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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William B. Botka and his wife Harrietteintended to volunteer as translators with theAmerican Red Cross in the planned Guantanamo Bay,Cuba refugee camp...
...Initially when we heard that they were goingto send the 20,000 refugees to Guantanamo, wecalled the Red Cross and volunteered to go downand be interpreters," Botka says...
Erin B. Ashwell '02 isn't a member of the cross-country team. Nor does she have the endurance of a marathon runner...
...great 13th century Italian altarpieces. It is the work of an unidentified Umbrian artist known only as the Master of St. Francis, and it shows a decided breakaway from Byzantine conventions in the modeling of its figures. In its scene of Christ's deposition from the Cross, the figure of the Saviour bends into an extraordinary U of anguish, pathetic but tense, as though he were about to spring back into life...
...almost equal quality is a very early panel depicting a tonsured, hollow-cheeked and rather minatory St. Francis, holding a cross and an open New Testament and exhibiting the stigmata on his hands and feet, standing ramrod-straight and flanked by four scenes of his posthumous miracles. It was done by an unknown artist, either an Italian or a Byzantine Greek, in the second third of the 13th century. It looks stiff and archaic, yet the painter has infused a remarkable energy into some of its details, such as the calligraphic loops on the blue robe of a madwoman from...