Word: masterfulness
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...could be, but when Libeskind got the Toronto job, on Feb. 26, 2002, he was famous for exactly one building, the much talked-about Jewish Museum in Berlin that was his first major commission. But one year to the day later Libeskind won the competition to work out the master plan for the World Trade Center site in New York City, a commission that was originally envisioned to include his design for the Freedom Tower, the centerpiece of the project. It was a victory that immediately turned him into an architectural celebrity of the first order...
...meantime, on the Jedi Training Stage, a new generation of fans was indoctrinated. A Jedi Master handed children brown Jedi robes and instructed them in lightsaber fighting skills. Yoda's teachings are refreshingly different from the "everybody gets a trophy" culture of little league. "Do or do not. There is no try," the Jedi Master told his young charges, before they lunged, ecstatically, at Darth Vader...
...evident that the memory of Quincy House seniors has become quite cloudy. Certainly, I believe that Interim Quincy House Masters Lee and Deborah J. Gehrke have done a superb job this year and I am quite pleased to spend my last year at Harvard with them. But I must say that it does a great injustice to Quincy House Masters Robert P. Kirshner ’70 and Jayne Loader—who are on sabatical this year—to selectively contrast very specific qualities of theirs with those of the Gehrkes, and quite frankly, I believe...
...heard that it was said [in the Torah] ... But I say to you ... " as his claim to be not merely the religio-military Messiah some Jews hoped for at the time but also above the Torah and hence God. Neusner imagined having a dialogue with a Jesus-era Jewish "master" about Jesus' Torah teaching...
...work space of an investment banker or hedge-fund manager. On the wall behind his enormous desk, there's even a photograph of Wall Street antihero Gordon Gekko. But on this May morning, the daytime television show flickering on his sleek, flat-screen set betrays his role as a master of an entirely different universe: women's fashion...