Word: antics
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...antic, indeed antique notions are at work here: that today's children are too docile, too attentive to their teachers, too respectful of their parents, and that what they really need is for a loutish renegade to give them a killer dose of (shout this out, as Black does at the end of every second sentence) Rock 'N' Roll! Because what is that music all about? Stickin' It to the Man! And how can these future doctors and bankers best serve America? By Rocking...
...Many readers felt that writer Joel Stein's antic skepticism was ill suited to the subject of meditation. "He would not have used such a flip, disrespectful tone in an article on Christian or Jewish ritual," wrote a religion professor from Georgia. Asked a minister from Maine: "Why the sarcasm? What was Stein afraid of?" And a New Yorker offered a brief, blunt primer on meditation: "The goal is to calm the mind enough that you don't need to make really lame jokes...
...available in life. It serves as an outlet for our pent-up feelings and an escape from a world in which the promises of governments and businessmen are as reliable as those of weathermen. In Japan, where economic depression has been so sustained that people have turned to the antic Tamil films of southern India for some imported lunacy and energy, baseball has long been a secular religion, with the attendant promise of catechisms and rituals that never change. The fact that most of the local gods have migrated to America (the main one to have failed there...
...jumping up and down on an abandoned trailer in Morocco is what it takes for Blur front man Damon Albarn to find the right sound - so be it. One man's ranting antic is another's creative ritual, and this one turns up as the rhythmic squeaking on the track Gene by Gene from the band's just-released seventh album, Think Tank. But it's also understandable that after 14 years, guitarist Graham Coxon finally decided he'd had enough of Albarn's calisthenics, and left the band in September last year, soon after work on the record began...
...remember Mister Rogers as being as warm, fuzzy and innocuous as a cardigan sweater, then you did not really know Mister Rogers. It is true that Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, which lives on in reruns, was an island of tranquillity in a children's mediasphere of robots and antic sponges. And in real life, Fred Rogers, who died last week of stomach cancer at age 74, was evidently as sweet and mild mannered as the kindly neighbor he played on TV. An ordained Presbyterian minister, he didn't smoke, drink or eat meat, prayed every day and went...