Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...increasingly viewed as the answer to what United Jewish Appeal officer Alan Bayer calls "a hungry, thirsty, bottle-of-water-in-the-desert need for connection with transcendent meanings" among ordinary Jews. Concludes Brandeis University professor Arthur Green, a scholar and advocate of mysticism: "For nearly 200 years, Western Jews tried to hide Kabbalah under the rug. Now it's been rediscovered and reclaimed as part of the Jewish legacy...
...perverseness made me keep it going," she says. The 80's hair she has maintained nearly into the next millenium serves as a perpetual conversation piece. She has been told that she resembles anyone from the vampire Elvira to white-trash TV mom Peg Bundy to country-western singer Wynona Judd. Which would Hicks most like to be? "Elvira, of course, but I fear I look more like Peg Bundy." Are these comparisons supposed to be compliments or insults? When it comes to Big Hair, the line between the two is blurry...
Wolf's district is approximately 2.5 square miles in the northern and western reaches of the city. Wolf represents about 40 percent of all Cantabrigians. She is a member of the House's education and housing committees...
LUXOR, Egypt: As grisly firsthand accounts of the massacre of 58 tourists at the Hatsepshut temple emerged Tuesday, so did the culprits. The outlawed al-Gamaa al-Islamiya, or Islamic Group, claimed responsibility for the attack through faxes to Western news agencies. The group claimed it had been seeking the release of Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman...
Your article on the new popularity of Buddhism in America [RELIGION, Oct. 13] referred to our school, a private, nonprofit, liberal-arts college, as having been at the forefront of teaching Eastern spiritual and Western intellectual cultures. We were thrilled to be included, but as much as we value our proximity to Denver, the institute is in fact located in Boulder, Colo., and received its accreditation in 1986, not 1996. LISA TRANK Manager, Public Relations Naropa Institute Boulder, Colo...