“Whether or not you buy into Mucha’s spiritual ambition, his illustrations are striking in their depth and detail, with a certain haunted, diaphanous quality that would be imitated throughout the twentieth century, right on up to those ponderous Led Zeppelin ‘Stairway to Heaven’ black-light posters that continue to grace all too many dorm rooms.”
Le Pater
In 1899, Alphonse Mucha, a progenitor of Art Nouveau, published Le Pater, an illustrated edition of the Lord’s Prayer embellished in his sinuous, faintly occult style. Mucha, who was born today in 1860, made only 510 copies of the book,...
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Lots of wind assigned to this place
And the ruminants' cry like a juniper split by the tempest
...
Eighteenth hour
The sea extended its diaphanous hands toward the shore;s hairy
shoulders
Like Isaac groping Jocob's fleece.
Lots of Wind by Michel Deguy
On Wall Street, Some Insiders Express Quiet Outrage Jesse Eisinger of ProPublica, The Trade columnist, says that a secret confederacy of Occupy Wall Street sympathizers is criticizing the financial industry for becoming a machine to enrich itself, fleecing customers and exacerbating inequality.
博思艾倫諮詢公司(Booz
Allen)的員工既可以在家辦公，也可以通過登記，在另一家分支機構的辦公室辦公，這種做法叫做“旅館式辦公”(“hoteling”)。博思艾倫人力
資源方面的資深合伙人克里斯托弗·卡爾森(Christopher
Carlson)說，這項政策對於留住員工至關重要。為了照顧年邁的父母，他從華盛頓特區搬到了佛羅里達州，然後在家辦公。
Fleeced by Fees When You Travel?
Fleeced by Fees When You Travel?
By STEPHANIE ROSENBLOOM
That newspaper at your hotel door? That blanket on the plane? The chair at the beach? They could cost you, whether you know it or not. And it adds up.
ponderousLine breaks: pon¦der|ous
Pronunciation: /ˈpɒnd(ə)rəs/
confederacy
(kən-fĕd'ər-ə-sē) 
n., pl., -cies.
n., pl., -cies.
- A union of persons, parties, or states; a league.
- The persons, parties, or states joined in such a union.
- Confederacy The Confederate States of America.
- A group of people who have united for unlawful practices; a conspiracy.
[Middle English confederacie, from Anglo-Norman, from Late Latin cōnfoederātiō, cōnfoederātiōn-, agreement, from cōnfoederātus, past participle of confoederāre, to unite. See confederate.]
fleece
(flēs)
n.
n.
- The coat of wool of a sheep or similar animal.
- The yield of wool shorn from a sheep at one time.
- A soft woolly covering or mass.
- Fabric with a soft deep pile.
- To defraud of money or property; swindle.
- To shear the fleece from.
- To cover with or as if with fleece.
[Middle English fles, from Old English flēos.]
fleecer fleec'er n.
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a raft of reform in Taiwan?
Foreign firms have been avidly pitching their expertise to states which have applied for funds, trade missions have crisscrossed the country and LaHood has met with a raft of ambassadors and transportation ministers.
Among the companies and their domestic subsidiaries the Transportation Department said have committed to created or expanding operations in the U.S. if they win rail contracts Bombardier of Canada, ALSTOM of France, TALGO of Spain, Siemens of Germany, Hyundai Rotem of South Korea and and Kawasaki Rail Car of Japan.
raft2 (răft) 
n. Informal
A great number, amount, or collection: "As the prairie dog goes, conservation biologists say, so may go a raft of other creatures" (William K. Stevens).
n. Informal
A great number, amount, or collection: "As the prairie dog goes, conservation biologists say, so may go a raft of other creatures" (William K. Stevens).
diaphanous
Syllabification: (di·aph·a·nous)
Pronunciation: /dīˈafənəs/
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