Word: byzantiumã
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...bygone European past, but manages to trivialize it by reducing it to a simple, romantic picture of the Old Country. Both Clara and the protagonist come from an Eastern European, Jewish background and move about in a world with scattered references to Dostoevsky, Rilke, Rohmer, St. Petersburg, Bellagio and Byzantium??one that is faded around the edges like a sepia photograph...
...Heathen School: A Story of Hope and Betrayal in the Age of the Early Republic,” “Homesickness for Things,” and “Weaving Christ’s Body: Clothing, Femininity, and Sexuality in the Marian Imagery of Byzantium??—this last one explores “the extensive use of spinning, weaving, and clothing as metaphors of Christ’s incarnation in Byzantine art and literature.” At Radcliffe, intellectual and administrative rigor is, apparently, not a prominent characteristic...
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