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...mean "god," and that Ya might have been the proper name of a specific deity. Naturally that brings to mind the later Hebrew names for the one God, Yahweh (Jehovah) and El (Lord). Pettinato also finds in Ebla a possible Flood story, prophets and tribal leaders whose function is reminiscent of the biblical Judges...
...energy was channeled into my work. I was doing Joe Tynan at the time. It was a selfish period, a period of healing for me, of trying to incorporate what had happened into my life. I wanted to find a place where I could carry it forever and still function...
...much as the aesthetic qualities. He is said to have once rejected a canvas by saying, "It's too pretty; I don't trust it." His insistence on creating departments at MOMA for architecture, film, photography, and commercial and industrial design transformed the traditional structure and function of a museum. He wanted, he said, to "show New York the best of modern architecture, posters, chairs and movies, and attack the complacency with which our successful designers contemplated their modernistic skyscrapers, pompous super-films, banal billboards, and the cynical promotion of artificial obsolescence...
...Harborplace, the Rouse Co. was one of the first commercial enterprises in the U.S. to create a special unit with the sole function of setting up black-owned firms...
...coerce and restrict. The solemn oath, of course, is not a bad way to lie. The Mafia enforces silence with an oath, and the blood oath over the centuries has killed more people than a medieval plague. But, in a free society, the oath has a crucial ceremonial function. The Hippocratic Oath reminds new doctors of their obligation, of the human context of their calling. An immigrant knows that the oath of citizenship is spiritually, almost physically, nourishing. His oath is a symbolic drama of community...