Word: knowns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...women's studies program is widely known and has allowed students to study the history and issues involved in gender and feminist theory," said Bussey Professor of Theology Margaret R. Miles, chair of the committee administering the new concentration...
...always come easily. In his sermon, the rabbi reminded us that it has often been difficult for Jews to maintain their religion and culture due to destructive and often catastrophic influences that have occurred through out history. In particular, the rabbi referred to the outright war against Judaism known as the Holocaust...
During the past year, SPOA has played an increasingly active role in city politics. In recent weeks, the group has picketed city council meetings, urging passage of the anti-rent control referendum known as Proposition 1-2-3 and opposing the liberal Cambridge Civic Association, which currently holds a four-member minority on the council...
CONVENTIONAL wisdom has been known to be wrong, and in this case, the conventional wisdom on the council is deeply flawed. The belief that the council is going to shift its attention from politics to student services assumes what is simply not true: that there is a clear distinction between political issues and service issues...
Velazquez's life was even, and little is known about its details. It looks quite seamless compared with the struggles of Spain's other archetypal painter, Goya -- a steadily mounting curve of 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...