Word: herberts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...step into “The Last Ruskinians: Charles Eliot Norton, Charles Herbert Moore, and Their Circle,” you immediately feel at home. The deep burgundy walls accented with gold-framed watercolors create a warm, inviting environment that seduces you to stay for hours, and by the middle of the show, you are truly convinced that you are not standing in a museum, but looking at Norton’s private collection in the study of his Cambridge home.Organized by Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., curator of American art, and Virginia Anderson, assistant curator of American...
...outcome of this doubt and befogged speculation about time and space is a cloak beneath which hides the ghastly apparition of atheism," Boston's Cardinal William Henry O'Connell said. This public blast from a Cardinal prompted the noted Orthodox Jewish leader in New York, Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein, to send a very direct telegram: "Do you believe in God? Stop. Answer paid. 50 words." Einstein used only about half his allotted number of words. It became the most famous version of an answer he gave often: "I believe in Spinoza's God, who reveals himself in the lawful harmony...
Some experts are beginning to question that lockout strategy. Herbert Brcker, a migration expert at Germany's Institute for Employment Research, says Germany missed out by blocking the first waves of immigrants. "This was a perfectly qualified generation of people from Poland that would have come here. Five years from now, we may only get what is left over. It may be too late." That's why Finland, Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain have decided to follow Britain and Ireland and open their markets to the eight new members from Eastern and Central Europe that joined...
...forgotten fact that three of the past six Presidents either dumped or tried to dump their Vice Presidents: Richard Nixon tossed Spiro Agnew for Gerald Ford in 1973, Ford tossed Nelson Rockefeller and tapped Bob Dole as a running mate in the 1976 campaign, and Bush's father George Herbert Walker Bush let his top aides try to give the heave-ho to Vice President Dan Quayle when he was dragging down the G.O.P. ticket by three or four points...
...restrictions on Romania and Bulgaria for the time being.) For the moment, countries such as Germany and France are maintaining restrictions on labor from new member states - E.U. law permits them to do so until 2011 - but some experts are beginning to question the wisdom of waiting that long. Herbert Brücker, a migration expert at Germany's Institute for Employment Research, says Germany missed out by blocking the first waves of Polish immigrants. "This was a perfectly qualified generation of people from Poland that would have come here. Five years from now, we may only get what...