Word: drews
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...short of the official seal, poetry struck a final time, along with lightning. Funnels of dust that some took to be divine displeasure rose up and blew across the infield, and two hours of rain flooded the tarpaulin and washed out the game. The sellout crowd of 39,008 drew back under cover and took the time to really look at the old place in the new light. The outfield wall, with its singular vines and morning glories and spider webs, was humanely spared any hardware. The stanchions peek fairly unobtrusively over the shoulders of the stadium. The park, that...
...reputation for being only mildly industrious and distinctly non-entrepreneurial. New Orleans has been known as a place content to make do with its natural endowments -- a great port on the Mississippi River, and a share of the state oil money, and a reputation for wickedness and charm that drew a steady stream of tourists for decades. For most of this century, New Orleans hasn't done much more than make do. It has never made a fetish out of equipping schools or paving streets. It has always had a lot of poor people; its rich people have never been...
...that like most rabbis of his day, Christ probably preached in a pithy, aphoristic style that was likely to be faithfully remembered and recorded by his followers. "There is evidence that Jesus taught his disciples to recall his teachings by heart," says Methodist Thomas Oden of New Jersey's Drew Theological School. "We have the ipsissima verba, the exact words of Jesus. Why should they have been reported if they hadn't been actually remembered...
Conservatives also make a historical case for the bodily resurrection of Jesus. Dean John Rodgers of Pennsylvania's Trinity Episcopal School for Ministry points out that St. Paul's account of Jesus' appearances after his resurrection (I Corinthians 15) was written only two decades after the events and drew on prior accounts. Says Rodgers: "This is the sort of data that historians of antiquity drool over...
When the J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu, Calif., unveiled its latest acquisition two weeks ago, scholars applauded the work as a masterpiece. Dating from the 5th century B.C. and believed to represent Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love, the marble and limestone figure drew praise for its unusually good condition and majestic beauty. But Getty officials, who reportedly paid $20 million for the piece, may have got more than they bargained...