Word: domes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...effect of making the human head a kind of residence. It gives the brain a dome and porch roof, and a strange little portable sense of place. It is a wonderful spot to look out from under, a sort of individual estate. A man feels at home in a hat, established. But wearing a hat is also like having the FBI set you up with a new identity in a different city. It can change...
...image of light radiating through glass calls back echoes of Shelley's elegy "Adonais," in which he describes life as "a dome of many coloured glass. Staining the white radiance of Eternity." Williamson acknowledges his debt to that splendid elegy: "And how Shelley outlived his death by writing it..."The Romantic poet, after concluding his elegy to Keats with an image of death by water, drowned and was found with a copy of Keats' poems...
...represented to the youthful L.B.J. Caro had already located the seedy hotel where Johnson lived at the time, and he knew that the young man kept farm-boy hours. Caro walked Johnson's route at 5:30 a.m. and found that the sun rose just behind the Capitol dome, bathing it in a spectacular, almost mystical light. "You can imagine," he recalls, "what that vision must have meant to a boy from the hill country." It meant something to Caro as well. A life examined in such detail, he maintains, is a fit representative of history. Says he: "Biography...
When then-President Lyndon B. Johnson denigrated "pointy-headed intellectuals who can't park a bicycle straight," he wasn't counting on Richard A. Kraus. The former Harvard financial aid officer and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) dean has been defying stereotypes beneath the glided dome of the Massachusetts Statehouse since January as Senator from the state's Fourth Middle sex district...
...incomes from the fund, which represents the legacy of a member of the North Shore Unitarian Universalist Society of Plan-dome. New York, will provide scholarship aid to students, funds for continuing education, and support for ministerial training and religion education program for Unitarian Universalists...