Word: greats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...game was a great indication of what we can do," Captain Scott Hilinski said. "We just keep picking up each game...
When the rabbi at the Sunday service spoke in his sermon of the Jews in Vilna (a village in Eastern Europe) a century ago, he was speaking of my ancestors; my great-grandparents came from Vilna. His topic reflected the cultural heritage which had been passed down to me not only from them, but from their predecessors as well. Yet here I was, reciting prayers that had been written hundreds of years ago, and I was having trouble finding meaning in them...
...lose any immediate family members in the genocide of the 1930s and 1940s, but many members of my extended family who had not followed the migratory path of my great-grandparents were killed in the Nazi concentration camps. The extent of the loss is overwhelming and is something I have trouble accepting...
...recognition and respect, unmarred by scandal or alienation (although he did father one bastard in Rome). Born in Seville in 1599, the son of a minor Hidalgo family, half- Portuguese, possibly with a trace of Jewish ancestry, Velazquez would always be preoccupied with his social position. (He went to great lengths to qualify as a knight of the Order of Santiago, whose members would not accept him until the King, who loved his painter, made them do so by changing the rules of entry.) He studied under a rather dry, decorous artist named Francisco Pacheco, whose daughter he married...
...illusion of reality. You are inducted into a relationship with the painter's civil candor about what he does. You are invited to think about how paintings come to mean what they say. Brought to the fore, embodied on the surface ever more boldly, this is the great conceptual theme of Velazquez's work, its binding ethic. It precludes all sentimentality and rhetoric. It is -- as one of his contemporaries exclaimed, on seeing Las Meninas -- "the theology of painting...