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...poverty threatened the entire natural world. "I read it like I do the Bible," said President Lyndon Johnson of her 1962 study, The Rich Nations and the Poor Nations. A Roman Catholic, she cheered the church's fight against inequity. Her plea for ecological sanity, Only One Earth, helped shape the U.N. environment conference in Stockholm in 1972. Co-author Rene Dubos praised her as an "economist who can talk to people through her human qualities...
...delighted for Dean Sterritt that she will have the opportunity to shape a well-supported program of academic advising from its inception and know how lucky her new colleagues in Penn's College of Arts and Sciences will be to benefit from her talents and her dedication," Nathans wrote in an e-mail message...
...position is a critically important one in the FDO, one which was redefined several years ago and one which Dean Sterritt has helped significantly to shape," Nathans wrote...
...Paris whose work has been widely shown in Europe. She's a ceramist, or potter, depending on what you think of her very distinct style. Her bowls and vases are always porcelain and always small, due to the limitations of her kiln. They come in a few very specific shapes-round, rectangular, oval or flat. She takes a simple shape and varies it simply-some pieces are scalloped, some are painted to look like they are. For this show, she has made a few more innovative pieces, the most striking of which is a large (14.5" diameter) disk...
...invention. In this show, however, most of the pieces are either black and brown earth-tones or white over blue and green underglazes. It is obvious from each of her pieces that she has masterful control over her medium-every slight change in color or variation in shape is deliberate. Though the show is united by the characteristic grace of her work, there is nothing that visually ties together the thickly painted earth-tone pieces and the light blue and green pieces delicately decorated with silhouettes of flowers and horses...