Word: treks
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Cloth of Time. In a 1958 preface to The Wrong Side and the Right Side-essays first published when he was a 23-year-old journalist-Camus remarked: "A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened...
...change would raise starting pay for Faculty members from $7800 to $9000, and there would be corresponding salary increases at each level of a junior man's eight-year trek to a decision on tenure...
...race from the two out-of-town teams. UMass appears particularly strong, but may be lacking in depth. However, only recently did the UMass coaching staff ask that their team be included in the meet, and they must feel they have a good enough group to justify the long trek from Amherst...
While the Met's visiting exhibit does not-and cannot-include any of the near-legendary series of frescoes to which pilgrims trek, vignettes from major masters, together with larger pictures by significant unknowns, have been included. Giotto, Italy's first great fresco painter, is represented by a fragment showing the leonine head of a shepherd, Piero della Francesca by a lone saint. The gentle spirit of Fra Angelico is manifest in a lunette from the Florentine cloister of San Marco. It portrays St. Peter Martyr (a 13th century Dominican monk) putting his finger to his lips...
...Montreal Law School, studied political economy at Harvard and, after World War II, at the University of Paris and the London School of Economics. But Trudeau, who was working on a Ph.D. thesis, became restless, one day packed up a knapsack and set out on an 18-month trek through Europe, the Middle East and Asia. One of his adventures: he swam the Bosporus. Returning to Quebec, Trudeau fought against the decrepit, reactionary regime of Provincial Premier Maurice Duplessis. He wrote for an intellectual magazine called Cite Libre that helped bring a business and cultural boom to the province...