Word: oakes
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...There’s not a thing that our people haven’t gone through in the 350 years since the invaders came,” said Tall Oak Weeden, an historian, activist, and elder in the Wampanoag-Pequot tribe...
Istanbul's Greek Orthodox Patriarchate, a complex of 17th century buildings off the shores of the Golden Horn, may be spiritual home to some 300 million Orthodox Christians worldwide, but daily mass here is a decidedly lonesome affair. Only a handful of worshipers, all visiting tourists, fill the ancient oak pews of the Church of St. George. The priests, robed in black, outnumber the faithful...
...Newsom’s lulling, swirling harp-play. The 17-minute “Only Skin” invokes Pynchon and Tolkien simultaneously, with its setting impossible to place and Newsom’s word-choice at its evocative peak. “We tramped through the poison oak / heartbroke and inchoate,” she whispers and shrieks at once, in the middle of a song that changes tone, meter, and story repeatedly, and yet remains remarkably cohesive. It may well be the prevalence of nature imagery, and its inversion, that earns this San Franciscan...
...trust, we are looking to create a President out of a first-term Senator [Oct. 23]. Wherever he goes, Barack Obama is asked the same question: "Will you run?" Let this man get his political legs under him and step forward when he is ready. Peter K. Ehrle Oak Park, Illinois...
...Some in Bordeaux may shudder at that prospect, but the region as a whole is racing to compete better. Some winemakers are thinking of allowing some winemaking techniques they long spurned, including sprinkling wood chips in maturing wine as a cheap alternative to keeping it in oak barrels. And they recently scrapped their regulations on AOC wine to enable producers to make a table wine, to be called Vin de Pays de l'Atlantique. Christian Delpeuch and other Bordeaux merchants aren't waiting. In the conference room at Ginestet, Delpeuch shows off a bottle of his latest creation, aimed...