Word: apocalypticism
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Walter Russell Mead is sitting in his office at the Council on Foreign Relations in midtown Manhattan on a soft June afternoon, at work on a book that was born last September. He published an acclaimed history of U.S. foreign policy last year and was working on a study about...
Talk to the people who were already inclined to read omens in the headlines, and you hear their excitement, even eagerness to see what happens next. "We sense we are very close to something apocalyptic, but that something positive will come out of it," says Doron Schneider, an Evangelical based...
This is extraordinary writing?tender and wise, stripped of the inessential. Its power rivals those apocalyptic scenes in A Fine Balance and is all the more impressive, given the intimate scale. Family Matters needs to stray no further than the Vakeel clan and their apartments to find actors and stage...
Kidnapped by dissolute Indian courtiers, Pran undergoes the first of his metamorphoses by becoming Rukhsana, dressing in girl's clothing as bait to blackmail clueless British colonial officers of confused sexuality. Kunzru's alcohol-soaked collision of English stiffness and Indian sensuality has a Dickensian slant (though with more buggery...
The biggest surprise in the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club’s production of Sweeney Todd, directed by Cary P. McClelland ’02, is not the post-apocalyptic set or the reframing of the story as young Tobias’ narration, but the reinvention of Sweeney Todd himself...