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...variety of reasons, including of course cultural chauvinism, Chinese literature remains a terra incognita to most Western readers. Those who would translate Chinese works into English face some heavy burdens. Unfortunately, while Mabel Lee, an honorary associate professor in Chinese studies at the University of Sydney, may have captured the literal essence of "Soul Mountain" in the original, she presents it in a strange and often irksome form of English. Run-on sentences sprawl: "I hadn't originally intended to do any reading, what if I did read one book more or one book less, whether I read...
...think the use of terra cotta compliments the rest of the neighborhood," said Martha D. Osler...
...plan proposes two four-story buildings of rounded glass and terra cotta facing each other on Cambridge Street. The buildings, which would replace Coolidge Hall and the University Information Services building, would be joined by an underground tunnel...
...commission debated several aspects of the proposal, such as the use of terra cotta for the building surface as well as landscape plans...
...wealthy, East Coast elite. For a candidate short on biography, Midland solves a problem. There's no wartime heroism in Bush's past or a hardscrabble beginning. This is someone who concedes he was something of a mess until he was 40. For Bush's imagemakers, Midland provides terra firma, a place to anchor Bush in the popular imagination...