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Part of the achievement of her work lies in the way in which she adapted the rationale of cubist composition to more mysterious ends. "Cubism gives you a block of space for light, a block of space for shadow," Nevelson has said. "Light and shade are in the universe, but...
Alfred Jones, in his mid-50s, translates business letters for a chocolate concern at Lake Geneva. He lives alone, the sum of past subtractions. He lost his parents and his left hand during the London blitz in 1940; his wife died giving birth to a daughter who did not survive...
Outside the Indian reservations, the sexual objections count less than criticisms of Hill's scholarship. She translates the book's title as "Clear the Way," and argues that it is both a war cry and a metaphysical statement of Lakota spiritualism. Among contemporary Sioux, her critics say, hanta...
This week Jews around the world commemorate the victims of the Holocaust by marking days of remembrance and Yom HaShoah (Shoah literally means destruction, and loosely translates to holocaust). As children of the survivors join their parents in lighting memorial candles to the dead, there is a growing sense that...
Santos-Buch is the epitome of the scholar-athlete, and the scholar part of that term translates that he is a History concentrator with a definite shot at magna cum laude. Right now, he spends almost as much time studying for generals as he spends playing baseball. He spent the...