Word: curious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...walls. Essentially they consist of irregular stacks of shallow boxes, filled with forms in relief and painted black. They have an extraordinarily dignified, almost hieratic sense of presence. Under the unifying skin of black paint (ordinary house paint sprayed on the raw wood), the rich accumulations of shape, the curious offcuts and repeated units, are as effectively transmuted into pure shadow as the objects depicted in a painting by Seurat become pure light...
...stated purpose to promote an intellectual context for examining social, political and moral issues from a scriptual perspective, the William J.Seymour Society is a curious new arrival on Harvard's campus. Curious because the group of theologically conservative Black Christians is the only religious organization at the University designed to address the needs of students who are trying to reconcile their political ideologies and intellectual inquiries with Christian doctrine. In addition, the society aims to serve the public with its series of forums and weekly Bible study sessions. Maintaining that all issues should be treated in an intellectually and ecumenically...
Still, this is a love story? Yes: of man as the eternally curious child and woman as the maternal source and resource. It is also, implicitly, the story of Jesus and Mary. Eddie is consumed by the dream of transcendence, of return to the modern godhead of the self. He is off on a perilous trip down through the memory of the race, and his only connection to reality is the umbilical cord of his need and, finally, his love for Emily. He often curls naked into her side as if wounded, seeking succor, reliving the Pieta. Again and again...
...Jimmy Carter will be the youngest man since Calvin Coolidge to return from the White House; and surely neither he nor his equally impelled wife can predict their own movements or calculate their effects. They have not really lived in Plains for ten years. But though the townsmen are curious, they're not postponing normal life-not even his kin, who though still cautious, seem 50 Ibs. lighter in the duty department and more candid than ever (but off the record...
...Kennedy's basement. Armed with a list of oil ministers' addresses, a letter of credit from Chase Manhattan, very little capital and the Kennedy name, Kennedy and a few friends sent their proposal to the oil producing countries. Most of the ministries did not respond; a few were curious; and then Venezuela said yes. Less than a year later, 8.4 million gallons of CEC-imported heating oil entered Boston harbor...