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...does a brilliant job of suggesting--with the turn of a hand, the tilt of her head--the minor adjustments of someone attending to an inner genius; you don't doubt that if she could only transfer what's inside her to her pupils, they would sing like angels. And when Callas' voice is piped in--a true angel, soaring out of the loudspeakers--Caldwell, her conduit, suddenly embodies the paradox at the heart of every magnificent diva: someone who might be thought triply vulnerable--high-pitched, solitary, female--emerges as an invincible spirit...
...other four gods he presents contain a similar mixture of idealism and practicality. "The Spaceship Earth" depicts all humans as stewards of a fragile planet, implicitly teaching tolerance and social responsibility. "The Fallen Angel" encourages critical thinking by stressing that error is inevitable, that blind dogma is dangerous and that much of what students learn in school is incorrect in "the American Experiment," he claims that having a government based on democracy and continuous argument is cause for patriotism. Yet, he cautions, we must remember that though "no shame need endure forever no accomplishment merits excessive pride." Finally, "The Word...
Jorie Graham read "Guardian Angel of the Little Utopia" and "Guardian Angel of Self Knowledge," both of which concerned "frustrated painters [who were] only given human beings to create with...
...family and friends, and of course, the land of his birthright. The other brother is cruel and hurtful to the bottom of his soul; greed envelopes him. He would sacrifice his own family for money. These brothers are only cartoons--the good brother (Reuben) is a harmonica-playing angel, while the bad brother (Robby) is a polo-playing bandit, until, as in all fairy tales, he is redeemed...
Carol Ann (Stockard Channing, making up for her dismal performance in "Smoke"), says to Swayze's Vita as the queens take off for L.A., "I don't think of you as a man. I don't think of you as a woman. I think of you as an angel." Please...