Word: hearning
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...bronze vessel whose inscription records that it was cast on the eighth day after the Zhou victory. The Met is still amazed that the Chinese agreed to let it leave the country. "It's like lending the original copy of the Declaration of Independence," says Assistant Curator Maxwell Hearn. Over the next eight centuries, Zhou craftsmen became increasingly uninhibited in adding figures to their vessels, as handles or simply as decoration. One massive vase is supported by eight crouching felines and topped by an insouciant and realistic crane with half-spread wings poised as if for takeoff...
...there are islands in the 2,000-mile-long Antillean archipelago that are still near pristine, islands without racial tension or xenophobia, islands with opalescent beaches, lush rain forests and brooding volcanic peaks, islands laved by waters that American Writer Lafcadio Hearn described a century ago as "flaming lazulite." Here the visitor will meet with hospitality and good humor as unflagging as the cool, dry trade winds...