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...relying on newly declassified documents, Senator Alfonse D'Amato of New York has been holding public hearings and dispatching investigators to hear the stories of survivors like Estelle Sapir. Earlier this month the U.S. State Department announced a "thorough and immediate study" of what it knew about the Swiss handling of assets from Germany during and after the war. And in New York City this month, Holocaust survivors and heirs filed a $20 billion class action contending that Swiss banks improperly refused to return victims' money and other valuables on deposit. Says Swiss Foreign Ministry spokesman Jean-Philippe Tissieres: "This...
...Wilkin's essay makes it clear that Gorey has the right to judge other artists, because he is a master artist himself. Wilkin offers a thorough explanation of the depth of Gorey's artistry, emphasizing "a sense of the artist's ferocious concentration on each stroke of the pen." Her homage is utterly convincing: every Gorey picture draws upon a rich background of visual references, ranging from Japanese prints to surrealist painters. Wilkin correctly argues that "Gorey's dialogue with other art, like his dialogue with literary traditions, is simply evidence of his wide-ranging knowledge and sophisticated grasp...
...Holocaust--the attempted extermination of the Jewish people by the Third Reich during the Second World War, or, as Webster's Collegiate Dictionary points out, "a sacrifice consumed by fire; a thorough destruction esp. by fire...
Some graduates of the concentration say the thorough knowledge of environmental issues they acquired informs their activism...
Costin Scalise and other women's coaches at the meeting said they appreciated the speedy and thorough explanation from the department...