Word: teresas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Desmond Tutu b) Dorothy Day c) Mother Teresa d) Mohandas Gandhi...
Physician and philosopher Albert Schweitzer was the conscience of our age. He worked as a humble doctor treating thousands in equatorial Africa for 35 years. He was the Mother Teresa of the first half of this century. BETTY JANE BROWN Rio Rancho...
...exquisite little head of Philip IV's daughter, the Infanta Maria Teresa, is even more summary. Velazquez paints shapes that look so obsolete that they're almost abstract--the massive cornrowing of the brown wig, for instance, and the mysterious, icily translucent lace butterflies that adorn it. He paints paint, or, more exactly, cosmetics: that pale mask flushed with matte pink, a plain little girl--she was a teenager then--propelled onto the international market by Papa's political schemes. Such portraits were made to be sent abroad to the relevant ambassadors, in the hope of arranging a suitable marriage...
...land as a kind of indirect punishment for the historical wrongs committed by her race. To Lurie, this is at first incomprehensible. He still needs to have recourse to avenues of escape from realityphysical pleasure; a fantasy about writing an opera on the poet Byron and his mistress Teresa; a longing for a former, more heroic self; anger and outrage. But the novel traces the process whereby he is able to find his own way of expiating his abuse of power and his guilt at being useless to his daughter and thereby is able to confront reality...
...Teresa S. Neighbor, executive director of the Election Commission, said that absentee voting "has been on the low side" but that she didn't want to speculate on voter turnout tomorrow any further...