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<b style="font-weight:normal" id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-74cb7ca8-cccf-0577-c040-94c80f840c22"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">For this Sunday, July 29, 2018, the Today’s Issues group will have a slide presentation by Ernie Novak on the art of Alberto Giacometti, subject of a major exhibition at the Guggenheim in New York. We will then discuss the implications of the likely ideological changes on the US Supreme Court.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">  </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></p><div><img src="cid:ii_jjztxzym0" alt="Giacometti.jpg" width="487" height="360"><br></div>​<br></b></span><p></p><b style="font-weight:normal" id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-74cb7ca8-cccf-0577-c040-94c80f840c22"><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">For Giacometti, the reading is by Peter Schjeldahl, “Giacometti’s Skinny Sublimity,” from the June 18 issue of The New Yorker magazine.  You can find the article at </span><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/06/18/giacomettis-skinny-sublimity" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/06/18/giacomettis-skinny-sublimity</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">This is better than my emailing the text since it includes several illustrations.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">For the Supreme Court, we will read Noah Feldman, “Tipping the Scales,” from the July 19th issue of the New York Review of Books.  This can be found online at:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2018/07/19/supreme-court-tipping-scales/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2018/07/19/supreme-court-tipping-scales/</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">I am also attaching a copy. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><b id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-74cb7ca8-cccf-0577-c040-94c80f840c22" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-weight:normal"></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><b id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-74cb7ca8-cccf-0577-c040-94c80f840c22" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline">The group meets in the parlor of the Religious Education building next to the church at 9:30 on Sunday. Please do the reading and join our lively discussion.</span></b></p>
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