Word: discoverer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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True progress is made when only ideas and beliefs are challenged. However, both Giuliani and Kabala seem to feel that the subject of religion is somehow sacred and should forever remain unchallenged. Maybe it is because they are scared of what they might discover. Is it not possible that by...
Ricky represents the filmmaker as foreigner. By using his camera as a tool of estrangement, he reacquaints himself with reality, seeing it in a new way. That is, after all, the job of a filmmaker: to present the audience with a new view of an old world. In American Beauty...
In 1985, after being wooed by a combination of Nancy Reagan and Cabernet leftover from the Nixon administration, Edmund Morris agreed to become Ronald Reagan's authorized biographer. What Morris found, or, rather, didn't find, left him in such a state of despair that he went underground for years...
But perhaps Morris' most compelling device is the comparison he draws between celestial stars and Reagan. He describes how in cosmology, as in psychology, the freak convergence of forces creates a centralized whirl. Momentum enters a field of expansion--nuclear particles seek release, and a man longs to embrace something...
And students in at least two suites in Matthews Hall woke up Sunday to discover they had been robbed.