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...overwhelming preponderance of the 400 poems depict slavery as ugly, evil, despicable - which in turn raises other questions. How could slavery persist so long? Were these writers merely marginalized social critics, powerless to change things? Perhaps the answer lies with Percy Bysshe Shelley, the British poet, who wrote in 1820 that "Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world." Perhaps all these writers shaped attitudes and sensibilites in the general public that eventually reached a critical mass, a tipping point that led - by both peaceful and violent means - to emancipation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poets Against Slavery in the 1600's and 1700's | 2/18/2003 | See Source »

...developments. Chinese, Korean and Japanese hanging scrolls illustrate and record Buddhist “sutras,” or sacred texts. Ceremonial objects such as Chinese censers and Tibetan bell handles bring to mind images of traditional Buddhist ceremonies. Wooden and brass statues, as well as several scroll paintings, depict frightening monsters who serve as protector deities that ward off demons...

Author: By Christopher W. Platts, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Buddhist Art: The Later Tradition | 2/14/2003 | See Source »

...exhibit’s informal centerpiece consists of four monumental hanging scroll paintings that depict “The Kings of Hell.” In the Buddhist tradition, the Kings of Hell controlled the fate of the dead, judging good and bad deeds and meting out horrific punishments. The scroll paintings – from China, Korea, and Japan – present these scenes of the underworld in similar fashions, evidence of a strict adherence to iconographic convention throughout East Asia. “I hope the viewer realizes that Buddhist subject matter remains the same in Asian...

Author: By Christopher W. Platts, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Buddhist Art: The Later Tradition | 2/14/2003 | See Source »

...subordinating them to the plot. The novel maintains a fantastic tension throughout, with just the right number of pauses to let the reader catch his breath. The tone is spot-on; the ever-present sense of doom hovers cloudlike throughout, as befits a novel of war. Roberts manages to depict the war realistically and beautifully, reminding us that actions have consequences, that war and death are often far less glorious than propaganda would have them be. The official canon largely skirted the implications of war, preferring a simplified tale of good vs. evil. Roberts refuses to shy from describing...

Author: By Marcus L. Wang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Eugenesis Transforms a Childhood Classic | 2/7/2003 | See Source »

...during the siege. "The trial proceeded rather rapidly," Trunov commented, "because the court accepted neither witnesses nor evidence nor experts." In a move that Trunov said was designed to turn him from an advocate into a potential witness in a criminal case, prosecutors also demanded a videotape said to depict conditions inside the besieged theater, and also sought to question him about the tape's origins. Trunov tried to introduce the tape - which he says came from a hostage - into evidence, but Gorbacheva declined. "It's just footage of what was happening in the theater hall," he says. "How they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Struck Down | 1/26/2003 | See Source »

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