Word: enterances
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...between supposedly allied forces. For Tony, the novel's academic, "the personal is not political...the personal is military" and "war is what happens when language fails." Such personal complications are what decide and entangle the roots of history. It is often at this point that fiction begins to enter into the picture. Embarrassing realities are suppressed by all characters on all sides, and it is Zenia's particular expertise to unearth these and turn them against those who had considered her a friend. Zenia's aura is big enough and bad enough for her to signal inevitable ruin...
Curiously, all three women enter into friendships with Zenia entirely aware of her reputation. This principal conceit is the most glaring flaw in this generally good novel. Even Charis, resident healer and spiritual expert, who judges people based upon their aureal colors, can't seem to tell when Zenia's automatically destructive powers are levelled at her. At one point, these are described as "waves of ill will flow[ing] out of her like cosmic radiation...
...American fields. We are uniquely strong in American foreign policy and diplomacy. What is the problem!? Why don't you, in any case help us persuade first-years and concentrators what their counterparts at Princeton, Amherst, Berkeley, etc., have never forgotten: that history is a subject you can enter anywhere, any time...
...enabled a ton of coke to enter...
...power than almost all the acreage of WPA murals that preceded them in the 1930s. They were almost immediately bought, half by the Phillips Collection and half by the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and were in fact the first paintings by a black artist to enter MOMA's collection. It seemed to both Alfred Barr of MOMA and Duncan Phillips that Lawrence's series represented a unique conjunction of black experience, history painting and a modernist idiom. They were right. From Benjamin West to Robert Rauschenberg, American art is sown with attempts, varying between utter bathos...