Word: josiah
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Sorkin's tendency toward the dramatic is exacerbated by casting serial over-emoter Martin Sheen as Democratic President Josiah Bartlet, who makes his first appearance speaking in the voice of God. Bursting into a showdown with religious conservatives, Sheen quotes the First Commandment, then unburdens himself of a pair of minute-and-a-half speeches while Coplandesque music swells and the camera cuts to admiring staff members, in case we've failed to notice how darned inspiring he is. There will be no curtains left in this Oval Office once Sheen has finished chewing the scenery...
What if Alexander had died at Granicus? Goodbye to all the conquests of Alexander the Great, says Princeton historian Josiah Ober. The Persian Empire would have overtaken the known world. The great promise of Hellenism would have lost its way; the growing Roman Empire would have atrophied; Judea would have remained a backwater, Jesus merely "a local religious figure," and Christianity and Judaism insignificant provincial oddities. There would have been no need for a Martin Luther, no Reformation, no Renaissance, no Enlightenment, no Western culture...
...Market was named for Josiah Quincy, the mayor who in 1823 designated the site for the public sale of produce and fruit...
...Market was named for Josiah Quincy, the mayor who in 1823 designated the site for the public sale of produce and fruit...
...Josiah McElheny revives the Renaissance with his glass work that imitates past Venetian glass-blowing styles. "The Story of Glass" will be at the Gardner Museum until April 25. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 280 The Fenway. 566-1401. Tuesday-Sunday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. $10 ($11 on weekends...