Word: faceted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Barham, 50, is a former sharecropper and aircraft worker who founded the Church of the Facet of Divinity four years ago. In his first meeting with Kübler-Ross, he introduced her to her own personal entity, Salem. Greatly impressed, she talked her husband into buying 42 acres of land just across a lake from a nine-acre ranch used by Barham and his wife Martha. Kübler-Ross called her property Shanti-Nilaya ("Home of Peace" in Sanskrit) and made it a center for workshops on death and dying. One result, says a defector from the center...
Probably not even these cases will ever last as long as that of Joan of Arc. Five centuries after she was burned at the stake, every facet of her person, her trial and the surrounding events are still scrutinized and argued by lawyers, theologians, historians, mystics, psychologists, poets and playwrights. Even medical pathologists have joined in the continual replaying of the trial of the Maid of Orleans. In 1958 Scholar Isobel-Ann Butterfield and her physician husband John theorized that an advanced infection of bovine tuberculosis might have led to the phenomenon of Joan's hearing voices. Critic Albert...
That fact will affect every facet of your academic life here, from the courses you take to the grades you get to the amount you actually end up learning from it all. For starters, if you are the type who learns best in small groups--if you function most easily in the give-and-take of the classroom--you're out of luck. The bulk of Harvard education is of the mass-production, assembly-line variety. Oh, there are tutorials and House seminars and colloquia and conference courses and independent studies. But by their nature--and Harvard's unwillingness...
...least, become love's labor's cost. Taylor, taking advantage of changing markets as well as men, quietly sold the stone for nearly $3 million to New York City Jeweler Henry Lambert. Two bidders, neither of them American, are dealing with Lambert for the clear white, 58-facet stone. Both want the diamond as an investment; for them, unlike Burton, love is never having to say you were starry...
...Professor Stanley explores every facet of East Asian-American relations, from the beginning of the Opium War to the last call at the Hong Kong restaurant." Vonnegut said