Word: recursiveness
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Ella has learned from her research that the blue color in her dream is that of the precious lapis lazuli pigment used in Renaissance paintings to emphasize the Virgin’s miraculous agency. And as the color recurs throughout Chevalier’s novel, it becomes a motif for...
Wilson's plays already stand apart from virtually anything else in contemporary theater. The overarching subject of his epic is the legacy of slavery, yet the plays teem with vibrant, idiosyncratic, fully imagined characters who are never reduced to political placards. The plays are realistic, even old-fashioned, in style...
On the whole, his intellect prevailed; as new readers continually discover, Jarrell became one of the best and probably the most erudite of American literary critics in this century. The question "Have you read . . .?" recurs often in his letters, and he seems to have read nearly everything: psychology, anthropology, quantum...
The blank space that Brown reported in the 1st century astronomical accounts where there should have been notice of Jesus' star has not prevented thousands of enthusiasts from attempting to locate it retroactively. Supernovas, comets and planetary conjunctions have all had their day. No less an eminence weighed in than...
The fame and renown of this university is hardly confined to the travel pages of web portals: just ask anyone from Harvard, Massachusetts. Or Harvard, Arkansas. Or California. Or Floriada, Idaho, Ilinois, Iowa, or Maryland: there are municipalities named Harvard in eleven states. That doesn’t include Colorado?...