Word: roman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...density, that crouched lion of rock. In between there are lyrical tributes to it, as in Mont Sainte-Victoire Seen from Bellevue, 1882-85, where it appears almost shyly on the left of a tender, early springtime landscape, all new green, traversed by an aqueduct (sign of the ancient Roman roots of Provence) and crossed by a pale road whose kinks are tied to the branch forms of the pine that rises in the foreground to bisect the canvas...
...theology major who seriously considered entering the Roman Catholic priesthood remains undaunted...
...York, offer bereavement leave and health insurance to the domestic partners of city employees. Stuart Kelman, a Conservative rabbi in Berkeley, California, has proposed an alternative to traditional religious marriage: a ceremony for what he calls a "covenant of love" for couples wishing to sanctify lifelong monogamous relationships. Ancient Roman law recognized three categories of marriage--a legally sanctioned union, marriage by purchase and marriage by mutual consent. Perhaps states might recognize different types of unions for both same-sex and heterosexual partnerships...
Armstrong's step-by-step march down the years shows how a succession of spiritual decisions and political circumstances passed the city from faith to faith. The rise of Greco-Roman power opened the way for the followers of Jesus to remake Jerusalem into Christendom's holiest place, a development she regards with little sympathy. Christians were taught to worship God's presence in Jesus rather than a specific place, she says; only in the 4th century with the archaeologically suspect "discovery" of Christ's tomb within Jerusalem's walls did the church project ideas of the divine onto...
...Russia today "freedom shock," to use Guzman's term, is explained succinctly by Roman, a 42-year-old taxi driver in Yaroslavl. "People have no concept of freedom," he says. "They substitute freedom of action for freedom of thought. They see freedom as license. They don't realize freedom requires self-discipline. They fear that freedom leads to anarchy. They view it as the ability, if one can, to lord it over those weaker than they are." This may explain why, in a survey of almost 2,500 Russians conducted in January by Richard Rose, a professor at the University...