Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...arrive from all the different towns and cities in America and elsewhere. In large measure, the beginning of the year is the most exciting because it is clear then perhaps how different a place this is from any other in society. The students who enter are strangers in an ancient place. To be sure, the new student and old will continue the quest for Harvard, the place--a concrete entity that you may lay your hand upon. It is not only a place to me, but a free association of minds which each generation must create anew. This generation...
...descended on Newcastle. At the city's modern civic center, he was greeted by Lord Mayor Hugh White, splendidly turned out in scarlet robes with ermine collar and fringes. The Lord Mayor declared Carter to be an "Honorary Freeman" of Newcastle. Among the privileges that go with this ancient honor: permission to graze cattle on the city's moor...
...power, daring and, at times, even horror. A requiem of sorts drawn primarily from two anonymous medieval texts, Dies Irae and Massacre of the Innocents, Star-Child is imbued with the same Blake-like contrast of innocence and evil that characterizes much of Crumb's other work, notably Ancient Voices of Children and Black Angels...
...with an ingenious knack for producing new sounds with old instruments and homely domestic objects. The grimly surrealistic Black Angels (1970), for example, was written for amplified string quartet and requires the players to trill with thimble-capped fingers and even to bow on crystal glasses tuned with water. Ancient Voices has certain mournful sounds produced by the bowing of a musical...
...think anyone has looked at the ancient world in this way, but when you do it fits into a pattern and you can see it," Jaynes says. "Look at the change in human nature, the change in man's relationship to God" between ancient and modern times, he adds. Everything may seem much more complicated, more uncertain today. But then, he concludes, "men were not good or evil then. It was the voice...