Word: descendantal
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There, in the library he discovered Roger Fry's Vision and Design, with its contention that there was more power and freedom of form in the sculpture of African savages than in most "civilized" art. The idea struck Moore's imagination as sharply as a chisel striking stone...
The leader of the heavily favored Alliance Party, Tengku (Prince) Abdul Rahman, 56, quit his job as Prime Minister four months ago to barnstorm throughout all eleven states of the federation by motorboat and car. Cambridge-educated and a descendant of ancient Mongol conquerors of Malaya, he plumped for more...
As a descendant of the de Albas, I disagree with the so-called experts who would like to convince themselves that there was an adulterous relationship between the painter Goya and Dona Cayetana de Silva, one of the Duchesses of Alba [July 13].
In a word, according to Shaw, Don Juan is a proto-revolutionary, and so his Shavian descendant John Tanner is portrayed as a social agitator and the author of The Revolutionist's Handbook and Pocket Companion, which Shaw thoughtfully appends to the published edition of the play. In his own...
Princeton University Marian Anderson, singer, alternate U.S."' delegate to the U.N L.H.D. Citation: "Her transcendent powers of human understanding have made her our most influential cultural ambassador, to the world at large." James Gilluly, staff geologist, U.S. Geological Survey Sc.D. Citation: "Dean of American field geologists, inimitable investigator of...