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Ocon said she intends to help Maggiore get established because he is unfamiliar with the area...
Peninsula editor Bradley E. Whitman '98 called the attack an act of "ideological genocide" and expressed concern over the impact the false posters might have on first-year students who might be unfamiliar with the group...
Murphy adds that the process grows even more tedious and expensive when professors have to deal with publishers unfamiliar with the concept of the sourcebook...
...aspects we have chosen as our themes are the impulse to create meanings for the (at first) unfamiliar panoply of American nature; the "American grain" of direct, pragmatic vision and craftsmanship; the urge to visionary expression of spiritual experience; the wish to implant grandeur in society; the move into cities and the obsession with their heroic technology; the desire to commemorate events and remember exemplary people; and the fondness for breaking (and defending) cultural molds...
Should we think it odd that an exhibition attempting to survey 1000 years of Chinese painting begins with this strange pairing of ancient sculptures--works that have been wrenched from diverse geographic and historical contexts to serve as an introduction to an unfamiliar artistic culture? Perhaps, but not because such a juxtaposition fails to address important issues for Chinese painting. In fact, the dramatic meeting of the two religious traditions, Buddhism and Daoism, and their dialogue with a third belief system, Confucianism, is the intellectual thread that Matsutaro Shoriki Curator of Asiatic Art Wu Tung attempts to draw across...