Word: hastings
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...Western-inspired protest movement to Iran's many campuses. The reality is that the Islamic Republic has no one to blame but itself. There is a quote by the late Ayatullah Khomeini that greets kids at the beginning of each elementary school textbook: "Omid e man ba shoma dabistani hast" (My hope lies with you). Iran's latest social upheaval is not yet a revolution. If it does become one, it will do so because the students are once again ahead of their teachers...
...emotional charge - it's not hard to find meaning in tears, scratches and bleeding. When these works were shown at the Guggenheim in 1966, some questioned the theme's suitability for a modern Jewish artist. Newman pointed to the subtitle, Lema Sabacthani, the psalmist's cry of "Why hast thou forsaken me?", telling an interviewer: "This is what the paintings mean to me. The cry." After the Stations, he needed to reinvent himself once more, says Temkin, and he took to the new bright acrylic paints. His surfaces became denser and he moved into a more upbeat phase, coining...
...ever had on the line - about four feet long, as the judge, who was manning the net, will attest - was almost in the boat when, being an idiot, I thought to tighten the drag a little (a violation of one of the simplest rules) and the monster thrashed loose. Hast seen the white whale...