Word: life
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...holidays, rituals and such--are themselves an integral part, indeed, the foundation of Jewish culture. For me, the Jewish cultural heritage consists of Eastern European Jews coming to New York City; for Jews in Tel Aviv or Warsaw or the Soviet Union, the cultural experiences that make up Jewish life may be different...
...trying to make life politically difficult in the city for Harvard," Natale said. "We'll oppose Harvard...with respect to the status of their rent control-exempt affiliated housing, the money they pay the city in lieu of taxes and their land acquisitions...
...Tufts Student Life Committee, a group consisting of both faculty and students, created the policy after a controversy arose over a T-shirt printed by a student. The shirt listed 10 reasons "Why Beer is Better than Women at Tufts...
Velazquez's portraits of Philip IV are the most remarkable biography of a monarch in all art, spanning his life from the confidence of youth to the melancholy and distance of his afflicted age. The face thickens, the eyes sag, the Bourbon lip takes on a heavy repressed pathos; you can almost see it quiver. Only the mustache, whose upswept prongs will be imitated by Salvador Dali's, seems alert, like antennae. "It is now nine years since any ((portrait)) has been made," Philip IV noted in 1653, in the last decade of his and his painter's lives...
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...