Word: manhattanization
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...honor the Silk Road’s legacy of fusion among Eastern and Western cultures, Ma and a rotating group of musicians from around the world play traditional and original music in concert and host educational events. They’ve recorded three albums and traveled from Manhattan to Kyrgyzstan. But according to SRP Chief Executive Officer Laura Freid, the organization agreed last year on the need to “look for a new intellectual home?...
...Terzian takes the Times anthology to task for omitting an array of significant events from the previous century. But he goes over the top when he criticizes the Times anthology for failing to mention—among other examples—the 1913 Armory show of modern art in Manhattan, or the life of early 20th-century Pentecostal evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson...
After an eminent legal career that spanned six decades, Constance Baker Motley, the renowned civil rights attorney and first African-American woman appointed to the federal judiciary, died last Wednesday in Manhattan...
Between 1964 and 1966, Motley became the first African-American woman elected to the New York State Senate, the first African-American woman elected to serve as Manhattan Borough President, and the first African-American woman appointed to the federal judiciary...
Glauber, who was invited to Los Alamos to work on the Manhattan Project while attending Harvard, said his work on quantum optics stemmed from earlier experiments in optics that rarely applied quantum theory...