Word: ancient
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...which invades the Stadium this afternoon at 1 p.m. (in a game that will be televised by PBS as the network's Ivy League Game of the Week), boasts what is arguably the top defense in the Ivies and what is unquestionably one of the leading passers in the Ancient Eight...
Looking ahead to next weekend, the Crimson returns home to host league power Cornell. The Big Red (3-0-2 overall, 1-0-1 Ivy) is currently tied with Princeton (1-1-1, 1-0-1) for first place in the Ancient Eight...
MORE IMPORTANT, Banks does not prepare us for the unusual story that unfolds. Program notes provide some background of the ancient Noh tradition--its heavy reliance on symbolism and subtle gestures, for instance--but the notes don't explain the underlying legend with which the typical Japanese audience would already be familiar...
Dismissing arid philosophers as "cold fish," Augustine was a passionate writer. This is especially evident in The Confessions, one of the masterpieces of ancient literature. The book is not only a pioneering autobiography but the forerunner of modern psychology and existentialism. It contains piercing self- examination of the soul ("You have made us for Yourself, and our hearts are restless until they find peace in You") and of the mind ("I cannot totally grasp all that I am"). Indeed, Massachusetts Theologian Brian Daley credits him with being the "discoverer of the person...
...Vandals, had vanquished Hippo in A.D. 430, its august bishop was already dead at age 75. The hordes destroyed the city but preserved Augustine's library of writings. It was as if they sensed that the West might need to rely on his words for sustenance as the ancient world died away...