Sentences with phrase «as the historian john»

But this new freedom, as the historian John Diggins has pointed out, created problems of its own: «The more free the individual felt himself to be, the more isolated and lonely he actually became until he craved to forsake his solitude in order to surrender his self to the new invisible authority of society itself.»

Khrushchev's 1959 trip across America was one of the strangest exercises in international diplomacy ever conducted - «a surreal extravaganza,» as historian John Lewis Gaddis called it.

Not exact matches

A 2011 Maclean's survey of historians on Canada's prime ministers ranked John A. Macdonald, of course, the top Conservative (in second spot, after Liberal Wilfrid Laurier) and pegged Borden as the next highest - rated Tory PM (in eighth position overall).

The historical evidence of Jesus Christ «Most critical historians agree that Jesus was a Galilean Jewish Rabbi who was regarded as a teacher and healer in Judaea, [18] that he was baptized by John the Baptist, and that he was crucified in Jerusalem on the orders of the Roman Prefect, Pontius Pilate, on the charge of sedition against the Roman Empire.

After all, John Wesley was perhaps the major figure in what came to be known as the «Evangelical Revival,» and the heyday of the evangelical experience in American life is often described by American church historians as the «Age of Methodism in America.»

Blessed John Paul II's encyclical Evangelium Vitae is used as a key text, particularly as Short describes the Polish pope as the «greatest historian of abortion».

While mission historians such as Gustav Warneck, John Foster and Kenneth Scott Latourette argued that mission should be included within church history, a small minority of theologians also suggested that it be placed within systematic theology.

Its bearer, who has no peer as a John Wesley scholar, is a historian with a vast knowledge of Christian theology.

Being attentive to detail, as behooves careful historians, we notice that the testimony is confusing and even inconsistent: the post-resurrection Jesus appears and vanishes like a spirit (Luke 24:31, 36 - 7; John 20:26), yet he can eat solid food (Luke 24:43); he can be touched (Matthew 28:9), and he can not be touched (John 20:17); it was indeed Jesus, but they do not recognize him at first (Luke 24:15 f; John 20:14, 21:4).

So wait you aren't going to blame what was obviously Politics on Religious Wars lets not forget that there were a few things involved in these «Wars of Religion» and I am sure most historians will agree with me, firstly the Crusades weren't thought up as some ideological crusade to protect Christians from some horde of Muslims coming from the east, they were in - fact land grabbing and trying to stave off the eventual fall of what is now known as Istanbul, secondly I highly doubt that most of the average religious person had any idea just how politicized the church became during this time period or up until probably John Paul the II took over, I mean the Thirty Years War could have been called a Religious war under this Videos silly assumptions.

Annie Glenn gets her own chapter, as do Moses, Aristotle, Demosthenes, Joshua Chamberlain, England's King George VI, Winston Churchill, Marilyn Monroe, John Updike, historian Peter Brown, and broadcasters John Stossel and Byron Pitts.

John, if you are such an historian why do you speak as if you know nothing?

Moreover, Berlin's essay defended the liberal democratic project in such a way as to reinforce the liberal anti-Communist consensus that historians still associate with men such as President Harry Truman, Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, and Senators Hubert H. Humphrey and Henry M. Jackson.

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.

When Noonan moved on to senior member of the bench in 1996, his friend Kevin Starr, the prolific historian of the State of California, recognized John's stature as a Christian humanist.

He's recruited John Folse, a Louisiana chef and restaurant owner, as the team's culinary historian.

The work began when HRPT hired historian and architect John Reddick as the project's art consultant and Studio Hip Landscape Architecture, a three - person Manhattan firm, according to records obtained by Gay City News under the state Freedom of Information Law from the Cuomo administration, the state parks department, and the Hudson River Park Trust (HRPT), which operates the park that extends from West 59th Street to Battery Park.

Space historian Roger D. Launius, a senior curator at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, provides an answer (as told to John Matson):

In 2004 historian John Coatsworth described globalization as «what happens when the movement of people, goods, or ideas among countries and regions accelerates,» and that process has been carrying on in one form or another since modern humans first ventured out of Africa.

As the field's go - to intrepid reporter and informal historian, John Weeks» strong editorial voice has consistently recognized the important work of others, constructively challenging, championing and chronicling what today is commonly referred to as the integrative health and medicine movemenAs the field's go - to intrepid reporter and informal historian, John Weeks» strong editorial voice has consistently recognized the important work of others, constructively challenging, championing and chronicling what today is commonly referred to as the integrative health and medicine movemenas the integrative health and medicine movement.

Composed of field testimonies and hidden camera footage, the film also features interviews with Haiti's Ambassador to the United States, Ambassador Raymond Joseph, the U.S. Department of States» Ambassador John Miller from the Office of Human Trafficking, renowned anthropologist and sugar historian Sidney Mintz, Carol Pier from Human Rights Watch, Public Interest Attorneys Bill Quigley as well as Greg Schell, and a number of activists from the field including human rights lawyer Noemi Mendez, Colette Lespinase of G.A.R.R. Haiti [Organization for Refugees and the Repatriated] and missionaries Pierre Ruquoy and Father Christopher Hartley.

The ending in the theatrical release was not well - liked, but a much - better alternate version is included here, along with interviews with director John Boorman and art director Anthony Pratt, as well as an audio commentary with film historians Travis Crawford and Bill Ackerman.

This has nothing to do with Crudo's discipline — fellow cinematographer John Bailey came prepared as a historian and film buff and delivered a super commentary track for Sunrise — but Fox erred in not trimming Crudo's sterile comments down to its essentials, and inter-cutting info from other, if not more broad - minded film historians.

Blu - ray extras consist of audio commentary by film historian Eddie Muller and trailers for 99 River Street as well as three other noirs available on Blu - ray (two newly arrived this week) via Kino: He Ran All the Way (written by the blacklisted Dalton Trumbo and starring John Garfield), Hidden Fear (also starring Payne) and Shield for Murder (with Edmond O'Brien).

As you trace your family's migration, you travel at one point with a distant relative named John, who was an avid family historian and collector but is now suffering from dementia.

Southerners love a good meal as much as they love a good story, and sitting down with food historian John T. Edge's The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South is like sitting down to a bountiful Sunday Southern dinner.

Secondly, according to environmental historians, the first campaigns to conserve natural resources and save wilderness occurred in the late nineteenth century (such as John Muir's Sierra Club to protect Yosemite in 1892), and a few people were writing on the subject before that, such as Henry Thoreau («in Wildness is the preservation of the world,» - from Walden).

«It's almost as if, decades ago, they made these decisions about America,» says historian John Baick.

But he knows «next to nothing» about his mother's plan to make him walk 500 miles.He knows the Camino began around the reign of King Alfonso II - «whom responsible historians surely call The Fonz» - in the 9th century, and that, in the New Testament, Jesus referred to James and his brother John as «Sons of Thunder».

Surrounded by the island's striking beauty, Stanton began his role as steward, historian and affable host to a legion of interesting visitors, from John Barrymore to Jane Fonda to the Eagles» singer Joe Walsh.

Historian John M. Efron of the University of California at Berkeley regards the popularity of Moorish revival architecture among builders of synagogues as a refutation of Edward Said's Orientalism, since the builders chose the style as an expression of admiration for the culture of the Muslim world.

Body and Matter is accompanied by a fully - illustrated exhibition catalogue, Body and Matter: Kazuo Shiraga Satoru Hoshino, featuring poetic writings by both artists as well as original essays by curator Koichi Kawasaki and noted art historian John Rajchman.

The work was celebrated at the time for the sheer velocity of movement with which the eye roves the canvas, pointing to de Kooning's interest in creating simultaneous foci, what art historian John Elderfield describes as «multiple centers of interest, and therefore a continual distraction, of vision being shuttled about the surface, so that it may rest anywhere but can settle nowhere» (J. Elderfield, «Space to Paint,» de Kooning: a Retrospective, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2011, p. 25).

B.A., Amherst College; creates An Image of Salomé for his senior thesis project, which is published by the artist and printed at Apiary Press, run by Baskin's students at Smith College; meets and becomes good friends with Baskin's assistant George Lockwood, who would later found Impressions Workshop in Boston; marries Gail Beckwith (later, the poet Gail Mazur), who was then a student at Smith College; begins graduate study at School of Art and Architecture, Yale University, New Haven; studies with Gabor Peterdi, Bernard Chaet, William Bailey, Rico Lebrun, Sewell Sillman, Neil Welliver, art historian Egbert Haverkamp - Begemann, and Asian - art historian Nelson Wu, as well as with visiting artists Fairfield Porter and John Scheuler; makes regular Thursday trips with other students to Peterdi's home / studio; works as a teaching assistant for both Peterdi and Bailey.

In contrast to other prominent midcentury art critics — like the New York Times's John Canaday, who warned him against fraternizing with artists for fear of impairing his critical distance — Sandler purposefully immersed himself in his subjects» milieu, first in his days as a young reviewer for Artnews and later as an art historian.

A fully illustrated catalogue has been published in conjunction with the exhibition, presenting the original essays by Mel Bochner from 1967 and John Coplans from 1968, as well as a history and analysis of Serial Art by art historian Mark Gisbourne, commissioned specifically for the exhibition.

As the English writer and critic John Russell wrote in Schapiro's New York Times obituary, «his output in print between 1931 and the late 1970s was almost absurdly small in relation to his reputation as both an art historian of the first rank and the most inspiring teacher of his time.&raquAs the English writer and critic John Russell wrote in Schapiro's New York Times obituary, «his output in print between 1931 and the late 1970s was almost absurdly small in relation to his reputation as both an art historian of the first rank and the most inspiring teacher of his time.&raquas both an art historian of the first rank and the most inspiring teacher of his time.»

The catalogue includes a text by Brandon as well as contributions by Nick Robins, author of The Corporation that Changed the World: How the East India Company Shaped the Modern Multinational (Pluto Press, 2012); art historian John Seyller, a specialist in miniature painting and author of Pahari Paintings in the Jagdish and Kamla Mittal Museum of Indian Art (Hyderabad, 2014); Ayad Akhtar, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his play Disgraced (2012); Ashley Nga - sai Wu, assistant curator at Asia Society Hong Kong Center; and Hans Ulrich Obrist, Serpentine Galleries's co-director, as well as curator and author of Ways of Curating (Farber & Farber, 2014).

Published by UC Press, the catalog includes new essays by DiQuinzio, art historian Suzanne Hudson, art critic John Yau, as well as Quaytman's daughter R. H. Quaytman — a noted artist in her own right, whose upcoming exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum coincides with BAMPFA's presentation this fall.

The book also includes commissioned essays by Jed Perl, art historian and author currently at work on the first full - length biography of Alexander Calder, and Paul Goldberger, Pulitzer Prize - winning architecture critic, as well as poems by Karl Shapiro and John Updike.

An accompanying catalogue will feature essays from both curators, as well as British art historian John Fagg.

The fully - illustrated catalogue includes poetic writings by both artists as well as original essays by curator Koichi Kawasaki and noted art historian John Rajchman.

Identified by the well - known art historian John McGregor as a great American Outsider Artist, Dwight Mackintosh began making artwork late in life and after spending over fifty - five years in institutions.

Art historians Rhea Anastas and Thomas Crow join artist John Miller and MoMA PS1 curator Peter Eleey to consider class in Kelley's work, and the way it functions both as a symptom and indicator of his relationships to institutions, feminist politics, and personal identity.

On the Art World Old and New — The esteemed British art historian Sir John Richardson discusses his lengthy career in the arts with the Financial Times's Jackie Wullschlager, including his early years as an aspiring artist in France when he befriended Pablo Picasso's wife, and later, the painter himself.

Containing many previously unpublished paintings as well as works in public collections, this monograph — the most comprehensive and best - illustrated book on Motherwell currently in print — introduces a series of texts by critics and art historians John Yau, Robert Hobbs, Matthew Collings, Donald Kuspit, Robert Mattison, Mel Gooding and Saul Ostrow.

Edirne was formerly know as Adrianople, and according to the great military historian, John Keegan, it's the most hotly contested piece of geography on Earth.

What the public can expect to see, according to art historian John Wilmerding, who has served as one of Walton's primary advisers, is a collection that ranks «in the top half dozen of American - art museums, maybe higher.»

Many historians cite John Wilde (1919 — 2006)-- painter, draughtsman, and printmaker of fantastic imagery — as one of the pioneers of magic realism in Wisconsin.

Honoring Ella Fontanals - Cisneros Philanthropist, Entrepreneur and Art Collector Cristina Garcia Author Los Carpinteros Artists Ben Rodriguez - Cubeñas Program Director, Rockefeller Brothers Fund and Co-Founder, Cuban Artists Fund Honorary Chair Leon Ichaso Film Director Dr. Eusebio Leal Spengler Historian of the City of Havana Artist Co-Chairs Carlos Brillembourg Omar Lopez - Chahoud Tim Rollins Karin Waisman Master of Ceremonies Arturo O'Farrill Pianist / Composer / Educator Special Guest Performance by Yosvany Terry AUCTION Featuring artists Vito Acconci David Adjaye Terry Adkins Franco Albini Grimanesa Amoros Miya Ando Eleanor Antin Julieta Aranda Alexandre Arrechea Jennifer Bartlett Richard Bosman Monika Bravo Deborah Brown Paulo Bruscky Deborah Buck Robert Buck Javier Castro Nigel Cooke Jane Corrigan Katie DeGroot Humberto Diaz Rafael Domenech Jack Early Maria Elena Gonzalez Carlos Estevez Rochelle Feinstein Magdalena Fernández Carlo Ferraris Roland Flexner Carlos Garaicoa Cristina Garcia Nereida Garcia Ferraz Florencio Gelabert John Giorno Tria Giovan Luis Gispert Jean Grisoni Jean Grisoni Alejandro Guzman Patrick Hamilton Lynn Hershman Leeson Virva Hinnemo Sheree Hovsepian How & Nosm Mark Innerst Chantal Joffe Rashid Johnson Jorge & larry Deborah Kass Leandro Katz Andre Komatsu Tom Kotik Julia Kunin Robert Kushner Stephen Laub Roy Lichtenstein Joseph Michael Lopez Rogelio Lopéz Marín (Gory) Los Carpinteros Emily Mae Smith Armando Mariño Carlos Martiel Catalina Mejia Beatriz Milhazes Ibrahim Miranda Mariko Mori Daido Moriyama Matthew Morrocco George Negroponte Reynier Leyva Novo Nela Ochoa Yoko Ono José Parlá Rey Parlá Geandy Pavon Victor Piverno Barrios Nathlie Provosty Tal R Sandra Ramos Pedro Reyes R.D. Rice Rispal Alexis Rockman Tim Rollins Emilio Sanchez Fanny Sanin Dan Shaw - Town Arlene Shechet Bruce Sherman Roger Shimomura Fran Siegel Kiki Smith Shinique Smith Rafael Soriano Nancy Spero Ezra Stoller Michelle Stuart Donald Sultan Marisa Telleria The Merger Frank Thiel Fred Tomaselli Rubén Torres Llorca Janaina Tschape Judith Turner Todd Vladyka Danh Vo Phil Wagner Karin Waisman Madeline Weinrib Martin Weinstein Daniel Wiener Martin Wong Monika Zarzeczna NEW ART EDITION Featuring arist Jorge Pardo Benefit Committee Rae Alexander - Minter ** Eric Appel * Amy Attas & Stephen Shapiro Auction.com Roland Augustine & Lawrence Luhring Yona Backer * Sigmund Balka ** Amanda & Clayton Benchley Gavin Berger ** Laura Blanco ** & Robert F. Shainheit Linda Blumberg ** Elliot Brownstein ** Deborah Buck Victoria Cabanos ** & Philip Hecht Ellen Cantrowitz * Fiona Cibani Gigi & Gustavo de Arnavat Alessandra DiGiusto ** Carol Dorsky * Olivia Douglas ** & David DiDomenico Cynthia Elliott & Doug Rice Dana Emmott Alexis Frank Lea * & Stephan Freid Alissa Friedman * Stacey & Rob Goergen Blake Grossman Marilyn ** & Stephen Greene Nohra Haime * Lesley Heller * Julia P. * & Horacio Herzberg Susan Hinko ** Joyce Hogi ** Jeanna Hussey ** Isabella Hutchinson Debby Hymowitz Ursula Kalish Lauren Kelly Mary & Sean Kelly Nicholas Kilner * Alice Kosmin ** Ian & Serge Krawiecki Gazes Joan Krevlin ** Miyoung lee & Neil Simpkins Tania Leon Ashley Leutner * Lordes López Florence Lynch * Mary Beth Mandanas ** Cormac McEnery ** Jennifer McSweeney Joseph Mizzi ** Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago Risa Needleman * Nathan Newman ** The O'Grady Foundation Ifeoma Okoronkwo Aitkenhead ** Scott R. & Melissa Persall Hirsch Alina Pedroso Penny Pilkington * Lesley & Jonathan Plotkin ** Nancy Portnoy ** Serra Pradhan * Paul Reback ** Michelle Richards Tim Rollins ** Ruth Corn ** & Gordon Roth Mary Sabbatino * Don Savelson ** Abigail Scheuer ** Alexandra Seegers Carole Server ** & Oliver Frankel Karen and Steven Shapiro ** Joyce Siegel Brent Sikkema SkyFrame Mort Spitzer * Joshua Stein ** Melissa Terrick Patrick Vega Todd Von Ammon * Karin Waisman & Carlos Brillembourg ** Madeline Weinrib Cathy & Joe Zicherman Lists in formation as of 12.21.15 * Art Auction Committee ** Trustees ABOUT THE HONOREES Ella Fontanals - Cisneros is a philanthropist and entrepreneur with an abiding passion and discerning eye for contemporary art and design.