Sabah Jammal, an owner of Hookahnuts, at 7214 Fifth Avenue, whose ancestry is Lebanese, said: "The arts are a universal language.
In fact the furniture, Ms. Talbott points out, was as homogeneous as Bostonians themselves, whose ancestry was overwhelmingly British.
An Octoroon is an adaptation with a twist of an obscure 19th-century melodrama about slavery; an octoroon is a person whose ancestry is one-eighth black.
CINCINNATI, Jan . 9- Kimo von Oelhoffen, whose ancestry is a blend of Hawaiian and German, can come across as a 300-pound exotic.
Evelyn, whose ancestry is Irish and German, began to fret that our children would become the victims of anti-Arab bias.
The art reflects the Papuan social order, which was based on families, especially those whose ancestry was identified with particular rivers and places.
His love of art has been inherited from his parents, father Philip, a Scots-born Irishman, and his mother Marvel, whose ancestry is Nigerian.
Mr. Kline, whose ancestry is Pennsylvania Dutch — "a very gentle form of Christianity" — said "Unsilent Night" carries "the whole accretion of a lifetime of befuddled spiritual pursuits".
For Naipaul, the grandson of indentured labourers, a man whose "ancestry is blurred", "seeing" with clarity is all-important to both constantly remaking the world through literature and to fashioning a history for oneself.
Mr. Annan, who is from Ghana, and Secretary of State Colin L. Powell whose ancestry is African and Caribbean, have joined forces in an unusually high-profile and strikingly personal campaign to beam a spotlight on the tragedy of AIDS in Africa.
