Word: subjection
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This past week, a friend asked me, in one of those proverbial shuttle-ride-to-the-Quad conversations, if I knew that I was doing next year. Like many of my fellow seniors, I immediately wanted to change the subject, slap the person who asked or complain that I was still waiting to hear on different options. I started my usual whiny "Oh, I don't know" response and then stopped myself, saying with some surprise, "I'm not worried. All will work out. God will provide me with something useful to do that will make me happy...
...point of view) Abdulla Ocalan had just been nabbed by the Turkish authorities, Kurds across Europe were storming embassies and setting themselves on fire, and the Turkish online community evidently figured the best defense was a good offense. TIME Daily writers were awash in form-letter hate mail with subject lines like "I am protesting you" and "demand for your apologize" -- and the poll was under assault...
...another painting from 1878, the "Portrait of a Little Girl," Cassatt goes even further with her color experimentations. This rather large painting employs one of Cassatt's most typical subjects: a young child engaged in a natural activity--in this case, lounging informally on a comfortable blue chair. While the girl is clearly the subject of the painting, Cassatt forces her to the side, filling the canvas with four ponderous blue sofa-chairs. The outrageous multicolored upholstery patterns, painted in thick, indelicate slashes, dominate the surface of the painting and seem disconnected from the fabric of the sofas, almost...
...subject is too sacred for the men of the HPT, who yearly tackle thorny issues of the day. Erik Amblad '99 assumes the controversial and theologically challenging role of the Reverend Hal Elujah, who must sell the word of God in disco-rhyme from a pulpit of rhinestones--undergoing a casually hidden, usually Russian and sexually appealin' internal drama in the process. If the body is a temple, there is a doctor in the room, and Elvis left the building, then Jesus brought the house down...
...Japanese art history, Goldenearned a Master's in Japanese history at Columbiaand then worked in Tokyo. It was after his returnfrom Tokyo that Golden began writing a novel abouta Japanese friend. While researching the characterof his friend's mother, a retired geisha, Goldenfound he was writing about the wrong subject andswitched his focus completely. 750 pages went intothe trashcan, and he wrote 800 pages about 35years in the life of a geisha that were declared"dry." Golden then threw out another 750 pages, anact which he called "exhilarating," and then aftera week-long anxiety attack, decided that this wasa story...