Word: mesopotamian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...means you can take this course a couple of times. Yesterday, it attracted about five graduate students, although it has the potential for a great deal of mass appeal. Yesterday, Professor Moran wowed opening-day gawkers with a non-technical spiel on Mesopotamian tablets, followed by a joke which provokes laughter each time it is uttered. "Reiner obviously had an Anzu period," Moran said. The class fairly roared. May be used to fulfill distribution requirement...
Where the Zulus came from no one really knows. Their ancestors are believed to have entered Africa from the Mesopotamian valley more than 10,000 years ago, following their cattle into new grazing lands up the Nile valley and finally to the southern part of the continent and what is now Rhodesia and the South African provinces of Natal and the Transvaal...
...offered in two editions, prepared by different sets of scholars. One version is aimed at those buyers who accept the Bible as reliable history, the other at those who accept more mythic interpretations of some biblical events. A colloquy in the liberal edition of Bible Times, for example, suggests Mesopotamian influences on the Creation story, while a discussion in the conservative edition upholds unique inspiration by the Holy Spirit...
...magazine's name is gleaned from the Book of Genesis reference to the Mesopotamian town of Padan Aram. It was on the road to Padan Aram that Jacob had a vision of a ladder ascending to heaven...
Teeth in the T-Zone. The Women paintings are bathed in influences - 1930s Picassos and 1950s cigarette ads (that smile was originally a Camel "T-zone" clipped from a back cover of TIME), Cycladic sculpture and Mesopotamian idols, the "archaic smile" distorted into a toothy leer. They are also drenched in evocative rhetoric about monstrous, insatiable female deities. The Women have been compared, severally and together, to the destroying Kali, to Robert Graves' White Goddess, to Alban Berg's Lulu, to Lilith and Marlene and Marilyn and Mona Lisa. Now obviously these drawings do have their demonic aspect...