Word: unearthed
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...heroine. But she does so as part of her exploration of Frances Wingate, for Frances "would like to know where she began and the family ended." She returns to the town in the flat English Midlands where her father grew up and where she spent school vacations, trying to unearth her past in the same way that she had discovered the ancient city of Tizouk in the middle of the Sahara. What she finds is pretty grim...
Finally the MFA has an incentive to unearth its strong American art collection. The Bicentennial has flushed American art out of storage and embellished it with historical dioramas, slidetapes and music in two shows, "Paul Revere's Boston" and "Valiant Upstarts." All the summer offerings are in American art. This includes folk art paintings which look like their creation were pshchics, magicians, or the forerunners of mad scientists, artists who delighted in optical distortions. One gripping painting in warped perspective is of a girl whose eyes are painted in super sharp focus. The focus blurs out inconspicuously in everwidening circles...
...regroup mentally--a place that affords women the almost unheard-of luxury to take for granted their right to be present. It gives us a legitimacy with a geneology that extends further back than first generation. It is unfortunate that at the same time women are working to unearth our unsung heritage from the musty archives of the past, we would move to bury Radcliffe in that same vault. I fervently hope there will come a time when historians will look back on the separation of Harvard and Radcliffe with bemused curiosity--pondering the mystery of an era which associated...
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, Unearth China's Past: recent archeology discoveries in the People's Repul through...
When he was told that the little cornfield on the banks of the Illinois River was strewn with old Indian arrowheads and pottery shards, Northwestern University Archaeologist Stuart Struever decided to do a little spadework, hoping to unearth an ancient Indian settlement. What he found exceeded his wildest expectations. The plot, owned by a farmer named Theodore Koster, may well hold some of the most important archaeological remains ever discovered in North America...