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During the Korean War, Soseong-ri, an agricultural village 120...
During the Korean War, Soseong-ri, an agricultural village 120 miles southeast of Seoul, was so remote, so nestled among hidden valleys, that residents were insulated from any sign of the conflict....
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Edwin Austin AbbeyThe Queen in “Hamlet,” 1895
Edwin Austin AbbeyThe Queen in “Hamlet,” 1895
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Hiroshima
Hiroshima: There was no sound of planes. The morning was still; the place was cool and pleasant.Then a tremendous flash of light cut across the sky. Mr. Tanimoto has a distinct recollection that it...
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"[Negro life] is the same life lifted to the heights of pain and pathos,...
“[Negro life] is the same life lifted to the heights of pain and pathos, drama and tragedy. The history of the Negro in America is the history of America written in vivid and bloody terms; it is the...
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1. Shepherd playing flute, 1925-19462. Shepherds watching their...
1. Shepherd playing flute, 1925-19462. Shepherds watching their flocks with Bethlehem in distance, 1920-19333. Shepherd life illustrating the Twenty Third Psalm. “The Lord Is My Shepherd,”...
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“Never, never rest/Till slavery’s pillars/Lie splintered in...
“Never, never rest/Till slavery’s pillars/Lie splintered in dust/And slavery’s chains/Lie eaten with rust.”Robert E. Hayden“Gabriel (Hanged for Leading a Slave Revolt),” 1940University of Michigan Library
View Article"We have heard again and again that Mrs. Reagan turned the president away...
“We have heard again and again that Mrs. Reagan turned the president away from the Evil Empire and toward the meetings with Gorbachev. Later, on NBC Nightly News, the San Francisco astrologer Joan...
View ArticleMy memories of the 1960s and the 1970s are different. I remember interminable...
My memories of the 1960s and the 1970s are different. I remember interminable dinners discussing politics, women and nations, long Summer vacations, foreign travel, languid sunsets, whole-night...
View ArticleToward the end of the film, when Muller asks [Riefenstahl] to define a...
Toward the end of the film, when Muller asks [Riefenstahl] to define a fascist aesthetic and she replies that she doesn’t even know what the term means, she clearly has the audience on her side. And —...
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Black Beauty / Miles Davis at Fillmore West, 1973Miles Davis
Black Beauty / Miles Davis at Fillmore West, 1973Miles Davis
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Posters for Vsevolod Pudovkin’s ‘revolutionary trilogy’ —Mother,...
Posters for Vsevolod Pudovkin’s ‘revolutionary trilogy’ —Mother, 1926The End of St. Petersburg, 1927Storm Over Asia, 1928
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Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin November 2, 1699 – December 6,...
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon ChardinNovember 2, 1699 – December 6, 1779You have seen objects and fruits that look as alive as people, and people’s faces, their skin, its fine down or unusual color, that have...
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“The Bloody History of Bible Translators,” Willis Barnstone.
“The Bloody History of Bible Translators,” Willis Barnstone.
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A set of stimuli from Gerda Smets’ tests of visual complexity....
A set of stimuli from Gerda Smets’ tests of visual complexity. The second row from the top shows approximately a 20 percent level of complexity.In 1973, the psychologist Gerda Smets ran experiments...
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Ivan BilibinIllustrations for Alexander Pushkin’s The Tale of...
Ivan BilibinIllustrations for Alexander Pushkin’s The Tale of Tsar Saltan, 1905
View Article"The Chinese word for cadre is ‘kanpu,’ which means ‘backbone personnel.’ It...
“The Chinese word for cadre is ‘kanpu,’ which means ‘backbone personnel.’ It has no satisfactory English equivalent, even though it is commonly translated by the French word ‘cadre.’ Since ‘cadre,’ as...
View Article"The Chinese word for cadre is ‘kanpu,’ which means ‘backbone personnel.’ It...
“The Chinese word for cadre is ‘kanpu,’ which means ‘backbone personnel.’ It has no satisfactory English equivalent, even though it is commonly translated by the French word ‘cadre.’ Since ‘cadre,’ as...
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