Word: curiously
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Attendees included the actively worshipping, comparative religion researchers, curious on-lookers and leaders of other religions...
...Curious Critters Created by David A. Carter. Written by Alan Benjamin
Robert Colescott's work expressed the themes of the lecture series--metaphor, allegory, illustration and narrative--well and was stylistically diverse and interesting to look at; but by far the most intriguing aspect of his lecture was the enigmatic unjustified political statements he made. I left both furious and curious. His attitude is like his art: ambivalent and multipurpose. Just as Colescott stimulated unsettling questions without proposing definitive answers, his artwork leaves both political ideas and the themes of the lecture series as undefined, ambiguous and potentially exciting as they were before he engaged with them. Robert Colescott's lecture...
...Congo from a "footnote in a book I was reading...written as part of the worldwide movement protesting atrocities in the Congo that had taken an estimated 5 to 8 million lives. Why hadn't I heard about this? The information was startling, and I became tremendously curious...
...Jones, wouldn't you agree that your despicable conduct, which has outraged decent Americans everywhere, has stained our Constitution, dishonored the brave men who fell at Valley Forge, dismayed our allies, comforted our enemies and caused our great agricultural produce to wither on the vine?" This restraint is curious. First, it is contrary to human nature--or, at least, my human nature. Second, those few witnesses who stand up to congressional bullying more often than not emerge as victors. During the Watergate hearings of 1973, Pat Buchanan put the Democrats back on their heels by describing their hardball political tactics...