Word: descent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sikkim came formally under Tibetan influence. The British took over Sikkim in 1860, but even today, members of the ruling Maharajah's family traditionally marry Tibetans, and Buddhism is Sikkim's official religion, even though three-fourths of the Sikkimese people are Nepalese by descent and Hindu in worship...
Kazantzakis labored on and off over a period of twelve years to produce a book of singular power and beauty. Translator Kimon Friar, a poet and scholar of Greek descent, received from Kazantzakis himself the ultimate praise: that the translation was as good as the original. Whether or not that is so, as it now reads, The Odyssey is by all odds the most impressive literary achievement of many a year. It bears out the feeling Kazantzakis once expressed, in describing a form of spiritual conversion he underwent during a solitary retreat in the mountains: "Since then I have felt...
Gradually there emerges the picture of someone dreadfully sick and sad. Born in Leghorn of a Jewish business family, Modigliani romantically claimed descent from Spinoza. He escaped from his bourgeois surroundings into adolescence, studied in Venice, bummed in Paris, took to art. It was a spiraling fall to greatness. Living ever more loosely, he froze his style to crystalline perfection. His carvings of heads and figures look like keen white refinements of African idols-which also influenced his pictures...
...steady trickle of impoverished French and Corsican peasants and by the dispossessed of Spain, Italy and Malta. Today, one Algerian in ten-some 1,060,000 people-is of European ancestry, though perhaps only a third of those who call themselves French are, in fact, of French descent...
...Plea for the Uncommon Woman," saying, "If we fail to distinguish the uncommon from the common, fail to provide superior teachers for the superior students, fail to reserve the best education for the best qualified and most promising young men and young women, our failures will spell the descent of college education to the level of mediocrity...