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...ways in which El Greco was not so much another of art history's lone wolves as he was a man connected to the prevailing lines of art, religion and philosophy in Europe at the time of the Counter Reformation. In the catalog, David Davies, the El Greco scholar who organized the show, patiently draws him down to earth. Then you look at the pictures, and El Greco's irreducible strangeness simply strikes you all over again...
DIED. EDWARD SAID, 67, Columbia University literary critic and the most prominent advocate for Palestinian independence in the U.S.; of leukemia; in New York City. A fierce critic of Israel and U.S. Middle East policy, the Jerusalem-born author and scholar advocated a single, binational state for "dispossessed" Palestinians. Though he repudiated terrorism generally, he drew ire for his refusal to condemn specific violent acts by Palestinians. The author of the influential study Orientalism, which argued that Westerners distorted and demeaned Middle Eastern culture by stereotyping, Said lived most of his life in the U.S., married a Quaker...
...teacher, he helped develop generations of labor economists. As a scholar, he was a leading figure in furthering our understanding of labor markets and institutions. As a practitioner, he played an indispensable role in finding common ground between labor unions, employers, and government,” former University President Derek Bok told the Harvard Gazette...
...Jewish history. The Palestinians have lost a formidable defender, the Israelis a no less formidable adversary, and I a soulmate. DIED: EDWARD SAID, 67, Columbia University literary critic and advocate for Palestinian independence; in New York. A fierce critic of Israel and American Middle East policy, the Jerusalem-born scholar's most influential book, Orientalism, argued that Western writers had demeaned Arabs and Asians with stereotyping. Yet he lived most of his life in the U.S., acknowledging that he often felt like an outsider living "two quite separate lives...
...words as your own by omitting to cite them; an act of lying, cheating, and stealing.” The manual suggests that a passage found quoted in another scholar’s work should be cited as “‘quoted in’ that scholar.” But it does not explicitly state how to source such a passage when one has returned to the original source to check the citation, as Dershowitz says...