Word: latters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...latter-day art boom was fostered by Roman Catholic missionaries. Among them were Brother Marc-Stanislas Wallenda from Belgium, who founded Kinshasa's Academy of Fine Arts in 1943, and Father Kevin Carroll of Ireland, who in the same era came to work among Nigerian craftsmen. Most white missionary bishops back then, Carroll recalls, "thought we were wasting time." Political independence and the increase of black clergy accelerated the process that European Christians call adaptation or inculturation, meaning the incorporation of local culture into Christianity. Today Nigeria has Africa's largest corps of artists and artisans, and Zaire probably boasts...
...guess is that Bellow made a poor attempt at the latter. His plot is so weak and the book's structure so seemingly arbitrary that whenever a theme--usually Clara and Teddy's love--is introduced, it is lost in the confusion...
Politburo member Viktor P. Nikonov, who serves as deputy to Ligachev in the latter's role as chief of the party's commission on agriculture, received 26 "no" votes...
...practice good ethics, you can prosper in business, but the former is harder than the latter," said James B. Keegan '63, president of Cambridgeport Bank, "So practice, practice, practice...
...Captain Jen White, who was so outstanding in several of the Crimson's victories during the latter part of the season, was chosen at the goaltender position. Also selected were defenders Char Joslin and Bev Stickles and first-line center Sandra Whyte. Tri-Captain Brita Lind was named to the second team...