Word: gores
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Back at Gore Hall I began unpacking my trunk--yes, trunk--and becoming acquainted with my three roommates. Being a waiter in the Gore Dining Hall, I was soon to know everyone in the building. Not until the middle of my senior year would I be able financially to give up waiting on tables...
When the John W. Weeks Memorial Footbridge was dedicated right outside our Gore Hall windows, I went out to see and listen to General John J. Pershing, the World War I hero, among others. How many know today that John W. Weeks was Secretary of War in Warren Harding's cabinet...
Ancient Rome bestowed laws, roads, imperial machismo, crucifixions, la dolce vita and the drama of decline and fall, the longest-running show in Western history. The city continues to give the impression of crumbling into its own ruins, its reputation as decadence central cheered on by Fellini and Gore Vidal. But like a Verdi heroine dying with a knife in her breast, Rome continues to sing impressively...
...baby is the lesson, and it is one not only mothers can learn: "I can certainly sympathize with a father who doesn't want to be a witness to the pain of labor, or who is frightened by hospitals and wary of birth: all that blood and gore. I absolutely understand why he would want to avoid dirty diapers. And I believe him when he says he doesn't know the first thing about caring for a baby. That's exactly how most mothers feel. The difference is, most mothers don't have a choice...
...more than art, the Safavid collection tells a story. It is a story of court intrigue and suspicion, of endless gore ("in a delightful way" says Welch), of fights against beasties (half-lions and half-apes) and hunting campaigns in the Iranian countryside. Beneath all of this lies a complicated story, one that Welch and his partner--Martin Bernard Dickson of Princeton--have deciphered after years of work. "People used to say it was impossible to say who painted what," Welch says, but all that has changed. "I looked harder and longer at paintings than most people do," he explains...