Sentences with phrase «acted as a historian»

«Today we look at that as it was, the Red Scare,» said Jack McEneny, a former Democratic assemblyman who acted as a historian for the chamber who agrees there was a legal question to expelling Lopez.

In this context, the artists that Simblist discusses act as historians.

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As the great English legal historian, F W Maitland put it, «We must distinguish between the perfection of a legal act and the fulfillment of obligations which that act creates.»

It was not a mere act of cleansing; the Jewish historian Josephus, who understands it in this way, is in error at this point, just as he is in making completely innocuous the Baptist and the Baptist movement in general.

John 6: 42), and the destiny of that figure — i.e. a human being and his fate, with a recognizable place in world history, and therefore exposed to the objective observation of the historian and intelligible within their context in world history — are not thus apprehended and understood as what they really are, namely, as the act of God, as the eschatological event.

But this amounts to saying that the historian of religions hesitates to complete his preparatory work as a philologist and as a historian through an effort of understanding, which, to be sure, presupposes an act of thinking.

The historian of religions does not act as a philologist, but as a hermeneutist.

Historian Peggy Parsons doesn't indicate whether Auric shaped his material as the film was being edited or whether the music went through great discussions with the director, but the act of composing a score could be seen as going against the very purpose of Clouzot's spontaneous approach.

There were genre writers on both sides of the dispute, but on the publishing side were huddled the biographers, urban historians, midlist novelists — that is, all the people who were able to eke out a living because publishers still paid advances, acting as a kind of local literary bank, in anticipation of future sales.

She loves acting in musical comedy, has directed many stage productions, works with a youth group, sings in her church choir, coordinates high school classes for a large home - school group as well as maintaining their website, scrapbooks, and is the historian for the Dallas / Ft.

Historians agree that this area once acted as a fishing community for the Mayan's long ago.

Museum directors, art historians, collectors, dealers, all acted as though American artists didn't exist.

Sam Toabe is a curator and art historian based in Boston, and for the last three years has acted as Assistant Director at Samsøñ.

A discussion between the artists and French art historian Élisabeth Lebovici followed each film, with some of the primary concerns being non-hierarchical production (in film, and in Pauline Oliveros» music), the camera as active participant in a performance that couldn't exist without it, and opacity as resistance against the aggressive act of understanding.

Art historian and visual culturist Camila Maroja that graduated from Duke University comments «The pieces of this exhibition appropriate and transform old and new national symbols such as the Statue of Liberty, the portrait of Ulises Heureaux, the ears of Mickey Mouse, the paintings of the artist act as a suggestive map, on which we can reconfigure our experience of the Americas.»

Rather than act as the final judge of an artistic practice (as earlier art historians had done), Sandberg preferred to test, directly within the spaces of the museum and through the reactions of its public, the capacity of the work of art to connect with people and its political agency.

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They backed this point up in the New Brunswick trial and the Supreme Court appeal using the Confederation debates of the 1860's, the expert testimony of a Canadian historian on nineteenth - century trade and the intentions of the BNA Act's framers, as well a secret 1924 letter describing a clandestine meeting between judges and politicians that purportedly delegitimized a foundational precedent on section 121.