Word: marsh
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Today Gnosticism survives as a living religion only among the Mandaean marsh dwellers of Iraq. But Robinson believes that the Gnostic world view has had a kind of underground existence throughout Western civilization, surfacing in such classics of existential despair as Albert Camus' The Stranger as well as among today's alienated youths. Says Robinson: "The Gnostics were colossal dropouts who opted for an otherworldly escape...
...exhibit runs its first two weeks at Jordan Marsh, its sponsor, as part of a larger collection of happenings called "The American Woman: A Celebration of Her Past, Present, and Future." Ms. Hiestand's show is detachable from its multi-media surroundings at Jordan's and it's scheduled to appear for month-long periods at Boston area locations from The Women's City Club on Beacon Hill to the Boston YWCA and City Hall over the course of the coming year...
Hiestand's exhibit loses some of its individual character in the midst of the related activities at the Jordan Marsh "Celebration." There is so much going on there that one wonders what the Jordan's planners intended the celebration's focus to be. Aside from the fact that women are the featured subject, a sense of integration in the whole of the proceedings is lacking. For the moment, the intriguing graphic display shares the stage with other acts, including the WBZ-TV (Channel 4) program. "Woman '75," hosted by Pat Mitchell, which will be broadcast live every weekday...
...year urban renewal splurge has left Boston's government and financial districts strong and healthy, but the city's neglected downtown retail center has stagnated as established stores have followed the middle classes to the suburbs. Last week Boston joined with Jordan Marsh, the city's biggest department store, and Sefrius Corp., a French syndicate, in a bold attempt to change the situation. Their plan: to build a $220 million project called Lafayette Place that is designed to make downtown shopping attractive once more...
Ford's approach was not what his closest domestic advisers, Bob Hartmann, Donald Rumsfeld and John Marsh, had argued for or anticipated. Indeed, almost up until the day of the speech, Ford's White House staff appeared confident that the President would take the high road this time, extend a conciliatory hand toward Congress, and in the process demonstrate his own command of foreign policy. They underestimated Ford's vulnerability to the last-minute persuasion of Henry Kissinger...