Word: writs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...R.P.F. checkpoint just up the road, the soldier handed the Hutu prisoner over to one of his uniformed comrades, who shoved him behind a stand of trees. Was the man mistreated? Was he killed? That question writ large is preoccupying the whole of Rwanda. Are the Tutsi who now rule the country killing many, some, or any of the Hutu who have returned to their homes...
...sexual predations without sensationalizing them, as Joan Peyser did in her 1987 biography, Bernstein. But here too he withholds judgments: the spectacle of Bernstein and his daughter Jamie both falling in love nearly simultaneously with the German pianist Justus Frantz surely calls for amplification. The moving finger, though, having writ, moves on -- to the 1973 Norton Lectures at Harvard...
...reading list had begun to take on a writ of sanctity," said Martin H. Peretz, lecturer on social studies. "If you checked the first reading list [for Social Studies 10] with the last list, 75 percent of it would be identical...
...Bible: "The book of life. The book of food. The book of meals and miracles." % In its pages he finds the secrets of longevity and regularity. From Ezekiel come the ingredients for bread. Daniel serves lentils, and Nahum offers figs. Millet, barley, honeycombs and melons tumble from holy writ as exaltations of roughage...
...measurement, and embellishment." This might seem like a lot to swallow on a leisurely visit to the Fogg to check out some paintings, and the preponderence of jargon in a visual exhibit is certainly a turn-off, but Dilnot's choice to include these guides (the "four moments" are writ large on the walls of the gallery) is actually very helpful. They provide a very specific context for the objects, and without them it might be more difficult to prove, as it seems is the intention of the show, that the objects don't really fit, that objects are stubborn...