Word: veils
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...citation also lauded Schimmel's numerous translations and published studies in Islamic poetry and religion. Her most recent work is "As Through a Veil: Mystical Poetry in Islam," published last year...
...veil of secrecy traditionally surrounding, Commencement Day's Honorary Degree recipients has been partially lifted by a Boston Herald report announcing that Katherine Graham, chairman of the Board of Directors and executive officer of The Washington Post, will receive an honorary...
This figurative iron curtain ensures that the West has little idea about what goes on in eastern bloc countries. An occasional book, like Hedrick Smith's The Russians, provides a brief, fascinating peek behind the veil, but for the most part a state of uneasy ignorance prevails. And when Western leaders claim one day that the Soviet Union is a crumbling grant only to assert the next that the country has achieved nuclear superiority over the United States and Western Europe combined, ignorance gives way to confusion and fear...
...DuBois gave an account of the intangible effect of the nature of the Black experience and the Black perception of it in his classic book. The Souls of Black Folk, published at the beginning of this century. DuBois believed such Black men lived behind and within a veil. He described how his son was born behind the barrier, and how the almost immutable nature of the experience would give shape to the child's life. DuBois' description is in Victorian style, but his sentiment is stated clearly enough for the modern reader to understand...
Within the Veil he was born, said I; and there within he shall live--a Negro and a Negro's son. Holding in that little head ... the unbowed pride of a hunted race, clinging with that tiny dimpled hand ... to a hope not hopeless but unhopeful, and seeing with those bright wondering eyes that peer into my soul a land whose freedom is to us a mockery and whose liberty a lie. I saw the Shadow of the Veil as it passed over my baby. I saw the cold city towering above the blood-red land. I held my face...