Word: documented
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kasebier, born 1852, in Iowa. In Kasebier's day artificial control of props and rigid poses was favored, so her impressionistic approach was frowned on at first. Her pictures avoid clean lines that trace intricate detail and fuse broad patches of light and shade. They don't intend to document, just coax an emotional response. She did a series on motherhood, in which titles were appended as interpretations. For example, "Blessed Art Thou Among Women," and "The War Widow." The latter depicts a lank, forlorn woman with a child raised against her shoulder, her flat white gown leaping from deep...
...stage and in the audience of ten Ringling Brothers circuses. The situation is not helped at all by the "proofs" that fail to satisfy traditional canons of scientific investigations. Despite the published discoveries, despite the indefatigable explorations of the psychic researchers, no one has yet been able to document experiments sufficiently to convince the infidel. For many, doubt grows larger with each extravagant claim...
...superb earlier novels (The First Cir cle, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and The Cancer Ward) were fiction alized reflections of that experience. In the first two parts of Gulag, however, he set out to document the entire range of horrors inflicted upon the Soviet people from 1918 to 1956. A 260,000-word mosaic, composed of personal reminiscences, interviews with survivors, and documents, Gulag lays out the intricate patterns of terror...
...document approves warmly of communal rites, which the Vatican seems to want to establish as the basic, most common form of the sacrament. But those congregational celebrations, the rules insist, must incorporate individual confession and individual absolution for each penitent-a somewhat cumbersome procedure. General absolution is in most cases forbidden. To the disappointment of liberals, it will be largely confined to mission areas, where a single priest may have to deal with large crowds of penitents in limited time...
...assess the shadowed side of his nature. Casement was a rapacious homosexual, a fact that was never suspected until his arrest in 1916, when Scotland Yard seized his private papers. Its most notable find was the so-called "black diaries" which Casement supporters erroneously denounced as forgeries. The diaries document his obsession with the price and private parts of an incredible array of consorts. (As the saying went in London when the diaries were circulated, "Gomorrah, begorra!") Oscar Wilde, Somerset Maugham, Verlaine, Gide and Proust are not judged today on the basis of their sexual proclivities; nor, argues Inglis, should...