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Nasar shows her mettle as a reporter here by penetrating the veil of secrecy surrounding the Nobel and revealing the back-stage machinations for and against Nash's candidacy.
The modest Muslim veil is in fact betraying its ancient and honorable reluctance to take on the aggressive flavor of fanaticism.
140 A.D.) who, Pagel writes, describes the vision that “descended upon him ...in the form of a woman” who says to him, “I wish to show you Truth herself; for I have brought her down from above, so that you may see her without a veil, and understand her beauty.”
It was a background, as I imagine it, that led naturally to the Malamudian insight that visible life is a veil, behind which can be glimpsed, by means of sympathetic insight, a vaster and more beautiful reality.
"I'll believe that you still love me/ when you wear your veil of white," Williams wrote in 1949.