Word: saviors
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From the untidy, artist-infested neighborhood of Montparnasse stepped an unlikely savior: Eugène Atget. A failed actor and painter then pushing 40, he had picked up a camera a few years earlier and started a meager trade providing stock photographs to artists. Over the next 30 years, Atget systematically captured what he called "the old Paris" in some 10,000 photos of remarkable intelligence and poignancy. In the process, he helped transform photography into a serious art form, becoming one of its founding giants...
...Hugh Hewitt, amounts to unashamed bigotry and opens the door to any person of any faith who runs for office being called to account for the mysteries of personal belief. He has published A Mormon in the White House?, a chronicle of Romney's rise as business genius, Olympic savior, political star. But Hewitt has a religious mission as well when he cites a survey in which a majority of Evangelicals said voting for a Mormon was out of the question. If that general objection means they would not consider Romney in 2008, Hewitt warns, then prejudice is legitimized...
...crowns all," William Shakespeare once wrote. On the face of it, Boris Yeltsin's end was fabulous: Some 20,000 ordinary people, most leading Russian dignitaries, many world leaders and senior statesmen that included two former U.S. Presidents flocked to the Cathedral of Christ the Savior to pay their last respects. The Orthodox Christian funeral was the first such for a Russian leader in the last 113 years. And there were full military honors, President Vladimir Putin solemnly walking behind the gun carriage bearing the coffin, and the artillery salute at the VIP Novodevichye cemetery, while the nation observed...
...great orator; he could command crowds for hours at a time. One of the things that draws me to Bryan is that he was such an admirable man before he became so personally situated on this dilemma.He was a great spokesperson for the farmer...he was regarded as a savior for the little man of this country. That’s one of the reasons I admire him, and lament his being painted so ludicrously in the Scopes Trial, not that he didn’t deserve it.THC: Where do you stand on the debate over teaching evolution in public...
...cadaverous Kerry, and a deranged Dean, he is exactly what our citizens are starving for. More than ever, the American public needs its messiah, and Barack, blessed with the chance to project himself as new, green, and uncorrupted, has been clever enough to slip easily into the role of savior...