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...port, under its light-suffused spell, its unpeopled high-summer sleep, becomes a subject of reverie but not a fantasy, anchored in the real by such declarative touches as the iron bollard placed dead center in the foreground, yet located in the ideal as well by Seurat's profound attentiveness...
Bulmer's respect for the knowledge of the Kalam people had a profound effect on Majnep. After assisting Bulmer, Majnep went on to work as a technician at the University of Papua New Guinea. Bulmer is now dead, and Majnep has returned to his village, where he continues to record his people's observations of animals and plants. "If you stay in your village, it is easy to pick up this learning because it is still all around you," he says. "But when people go to Madang ((the nearest city)), they lose it very quickly." Throughout the country, though, Majnep...
...class, and my mother and father were deeply intelligent. They actually made the journey into the Christian faith later, after I did, and we were able to argue and discuss it together and so on. But meeting Christ also meant that I met education, and it had a very profound influence on my discovering the richness of life. I've said that at the age of 17 1/2, I discovered the letter h in the English language, which, you know, isn't much known among the English working class. Now that's not to be elitist about it, but that...
Whatever is done to help the Soviets, no one was expecting a rapid cure for the nation's profound malaise. Predicted a top Bush Administration analyst: "In the short run, things will probably get worse." A senior White House official wondered if devolution of power would result in real market freedoms or just "central control by ((each of)) the 15 republics." He added: "I'm not sure even the reformers understand the difference...
Could the West's condemnation of B.C.C.I. as a criminal bank be attributed at least in part to a profound clash of cultures? That is precisely the case, say experts familiar with banking in the Middle East and Asia. They insist that many B.C.C.I. practices that the U.S. and the rest of the developed world call reprehensible are merely traditional operating procedure in the eyes of Muslims...