Word: glazes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...characters, he nowhere descends to type. The various slaves and Frenchmen are distinct individuals as well as symbols; a major reason for the purity of Solitude's anger is her heritage, developed beyond that of most other slaves. The fantasies of slave-owners are indictment enough without the glaze of the author's own rancor, and one of the oppressors is almost sympathetic, with strong psychological motivations for his actions as a slave-owner (his father had been a white slave), and an occasional charitable impulse. Schwarz-Bart indicts the stupid, parasitic values of a colonial culture...
...were not united until 1969, when the second part was donated to Italy's National Library in Florence. In beauty and inventiveness The Visconti Hours fully matches the more famed Duc de Berry's Book of Hours at Chantilly. Its gold embellishments gleam under a unique reddish glaze, its borders are endlessly inventive in incorporating the Duke's emblems with animals, flowers and armorials. If the whole does not seem as devotional an object as its possessors liked to profess, it is certainly something from the artifice of eternity that, in Yeats' phrase, might keep...
...issue is one of those complex numerical puzzles that tend to glaze the most attentive eye. But it is important because it concerns the allotment of delegates to the next convention. The conservatives were clearly in control of this convention and they want things kept that way four years hence. They were scarcely ruffled by a federal court decision last spring that ruled that the present delegate apportionment is unconstitutional. A conservative majority on the Rules Committee proceeded to modify the system a little, but the basic inequity remained...
DESPITE THE POTTERY'S sustained effort to emphasize the necessity of making equipment, the pottery wobbles on a shaky financial underpinning. All daily operating expenses, including clay and glaze supplies, are paid for by each student's $30 per semester studio fee (contrast this with $75 for instruction in a local commercial course, which doesn't include supplies). With the exception of the initial $1400 allocated to set up the studio, the $30 fee is the only income used for supplies. The only direct financial support has come from South Hose -- Rippe's $1000 salary--and the Radcliffe gym. which...
...couldn't handle, even if she was having a tantrum or hysterical crying. But when she'd get in a temper, it was frightening, because she'd yell a lot and I'd freeze. Lots of yelling. Now I avoid people who are screaming at all costs. My eyes glaze over when someone begins to yell, and my mind retreats back to someplace else so they can't get through...