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How to make an epitome of all this? The overseer of the vast Grove project, editor and curator Jane Shoaf Turner, embraced its complexities and contradictions, and has done an astonishing job of marshaling the talents of some 6,700 contributors. The Dictionary of Art contains more than 41,000...
No more complete guide to the world's art exists; this is especially true of the range of cultures outside the West, both old and modern, such as Aboriginal Australia, Oceania or ancient Egypt. The discussion of Japanese art, from its earliest beginnings to the 20th century, extends to 431...
In the lecture, titled, "A Society of Addicts: Drugs and Public Policy," Weil said that change might happen if American public policy incorporated the qualities of diverse cultures.
While at Harvard Medical School, Weil studied cultures which integrated psychoactive drugs into their daily life. By analyzing the traits that characterize a successful relationship between people and drugs, Weil said he hoped to determine how such a coexistence could form in the United States.
The story's strands do come together in a family reunion of sorts. At the end of the novel, the whole family, cousins, aunts, mothers uncles, fathers and stepmothers, all come together for a family portrait. Ironically, no one in the picture seems prepared: "all in mid-pose, some with...