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...Lincoln's tomb looms over the Oak Ridge Cemetery not far from downtown Springfield. This massive granite edifice, decorated with statues cast from melted cannons and topped by an obelisk rising 117 feet, is a testament to the enormous place Lincoln occupies in America's heart and memory. As if to remind us, though, of Lincoln's genius for understatement, his burial marker inside is starkly simple - a name and two dates...
...others who wanted to shape him into something else, Fani-Kayode used photography to defend his individuality. “Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1989)”, which catalogues Fani-Kayode’s photography from 1983 until his AIDS-related death in 1989, serves as a testament to that struggle. In embracing himself through photographic self-portraits, Fani-Kayode bares himself—everything from his homosexuality to his Yoruba tribal heritage to his life in the West.Fani-Kayode’s artwork was inspired by “techniques of ecstasy,” a material...
...asked Widener to purchase the PBS sandwich documentary.Five sandwich-filled dreams later, I realized I had crossed over to the other side. My inability to control my research was like the Schmooze’s inability to contain itself on the forum. It was a testament to how integral the sandwich is to all our lives—whether or not we stop to think about it. What had started as a simple definitional question had sprawled into an epic exploration of our collective obsession with the sandwich. So, yes Adams, the wrap is a sandwich. And yes, an analysis...
...calm passion and power that distinguishes leaders of her incredible historical stature. The daughter of a waitress and a coal miner, Señora Huerta’s lifelong fight for social justice is, as David G. Hernandez ’09 puts it, a “testament to the power each one of us possesses to make a positive difference.” Her acceptance of the Reverend Professor Peter J. Gomes Humanitarian of the Year Award, given by the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, is a fitting celebration of increased opportunity for Chicanos, Latinos, women...
...Pretenders is the fourth of José's five Rosales novels, which together span a hundred years of Philippine history from the end of Spanish colonial rule to the declaration of martial law by a besieged Ferdinand Marcos in 1972. José's saga, an outraged testament to the inequalities that wrack Manila and the country at large, is rivaled in his nation's literature only by José Rizal's Noli Me Tangere (1887) and El Filibusterismo (1891), both acknowledged influences on José's writing. In Dusk, the first in the saga and set at the wane...