Word: veils
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...glided halls. From out of the caves of evening that swing between the strong-limbed earth and the tracery of stars, I summon Aristotle and Aurelius and what soul I will, and they come all graciously with no scorn or condescension. So, wed with Truth, I dwell above the Veil...
Concentrators say the administration needs tolisten to their concerns about faculty. And forhis part, Davis says the veil of secrecysurrounding decisions on linguistics must belifted...
Perhaps Yu Should drop his veil of "objectivity" and honestly consider what political biases of his own make it so hard for him to accept that it really is an issue of "good against evil" when ordinary citizens are harassed with death threats and dead dogs doubly inauspicious in this Year of the Dog because of their sexuality. Carsey Yee Graduate Student, History and East Asian Languages
...show begins with James Abbott McNeil Whistler's painting, Nocturne in Black and Gold: Rag Shop, Chelsea (c. 1848) He explores the effects of shadow and light, outlining a little girl's illuminated white dress in a dimly lit storefront which encloses her in a veil of darkness. The only representational painting in the exhibit, it anchors the efforts of the later painters in their exploration of tonality in the continuum of degrees of abstraction...
...kept at home? Who has to wear the veil? Who has their feet broken? Who is subjected to female circumcision so that they don't get any sexual pleasure?" Suleiman asks. "If to say that these practices are generally horrible is political, then I am proud to say that Women's Studies is political...