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...impiety & sin” in the 1740s. Holyoke fought back with the snappily titled “The Testimony of the President, Professors, Tutors and Hebrew Instructor of Harvard College, Cambridge, Against the Reverend Mr. George Whitefield, and his Conduct.” This ignited a war of words??with pamphlets as weapon of choice—that would last for a year...
...gimmick,” he told the audience, “The Baileys are skeptical of politics. They want to believe. They want something concrete.” He added that whereas the Republicans were able to solidify their national platform in 2004 around “eight words??— “war in Iraq, cut taxes, no gay marriage”—the Democrats didn’t lay out a clear and purposeful agenda. He wrote his book to foster discussion and debate among the Democratic Party and better prepare...
...apparently my mother is white.Despite two decades filled with her consoling image, images and particulars still nestled firmly in the nooks of my nostalgia—coffee auburn locks to match the scent of sweet coffee on her words??I was probably tipped off to her lurking whiteness not too long ago.She hid it well. It might have been her near-devout fixation on all things ostensibly black, from her prized collection of African American Santa Clauses to marrying a Dominican man, my father, against the wishes of her family. Perhaps it was the feat of giving birth...
...Written on a wall in Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), designer John Galliano’s words sound more like one of Will Ferrell’s lines in “Zoolander” than an artistic credo.But Galliano’s words??shown next to his spring 2006 haute couture collection for iconic fashion house Christian Dior—are displayed with sober seriousness in a new exhibit at the MFA. Galliano is one of ten designers from the world of Paris fashion whose latest creations are on display in the MFA?...
...takes apart “suitcase-like words?? such as “consciousness,” “self,” and “love” and tries to explain what the brain is really doing in everyday situations. “Instead of searching for simple explanations,” Minsky writes, “we need to find more complicated ways to explain our most familiar mental events.” He does just that in “The Emotion Machine...