Word: shades
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...possible that evil is a problem that is more intelligently addressed outside the religious context of God and Satan? Perhaps. For some, that takes the drama out of the discussion and dims it down to a paler shade of Unitarianism. Evil, in whatever intellectual framework, is by definition a monster. It has a strange coercive force: a temptation, a mystery, a horrible charm. Shakespeare understood that perfectly when he created Iago in his secular and motiveless malignity...
While Wylie insists the movie was not a life story, there is a shade of truth in the fact that at Harvard, Wylie in little-known compared to the virtual celebrities on the Crimson hockey team. This year, Harvard Athletic Director Bill Cleary awarded Wylie an honorary varsity letter for his contributions to Harvard athletics...
...past as a ruse to filter out black or brown applicants. So race norming was added as a way to make the results "color-blind." Eventually, 35 states adopted the Labor Department program in some measure. Until recently, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission encouraged firms in some cases to shade scores for the benefit of minorities. Variations of norming have been used in other programs as well...
Royal's photographic style is characterized by clarity and contrast. She untilizes extreme forcus in all areas and emphasizes the distinctions between light and shade. For all their technical clarity, these pictures are anything but immediately readable...
...pariah dogs. If people are poor and live in the desert, language may be their richest possession: Why not? It opens miraculously onto other worlds. The Koran, with its bursts of sonority and light, describes a paradise that has everything the desert does not: the sweetest water, cool shade, silken couches, wines that one can endlessly drink without getting drunk...