Word: ba
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Star Trek: Insurrection, the newest installment of the Next Generation story, is still a decent and entertaining film. Returning to a classically moralistic Star Trek storyline, the movie follows the crew of the Starship Enterprise as they stumble upon a sinister plot to uproot an peaceful agricultural race, the Ba'ku and steal their planet. Just as in the days of Captain Kirk, Captain Picard (Patrick Stewart) must disobey a direct order from a Starfleet admiral in order to do what he feels is right...
...just a lone guitar with keyboards. "The Guitar" turned into a neo-hippie psychedelic experience, replete with feel-good arm-waving from the audience. "Particle Man" consisted of Linnell solo on the accordion. As an added bonus, this particular song's midsection included a hilarious interlude of "Kum-ba-ya," in a minor key, no less...
...knows about it. It turns out I was one of three students in the entire state of Iowa studying Chinese and we had five teachers. It turns out I loved it, it clicked, it took, and I love Chinese. I went from there with my Chinese Studies and Anthropology BA, and I went to study at Berkeley in the heyday of the crazy years at Berkeley. It was a fabulous time in terms of the culture at Berkeley and there I studied anthropology...
...biggest class that school had ever had. My dad was a school principal and coach, and my mom was a housewife. And they couldn't figure out what on earth anyone would do with Chinese but they figured I needed the money and I had to get through the BA and maybe I'd be sensible and go to law school or medical school. They figured it was a vehicle for finishing the BA. They were very supportive; they didn't say, "No you're crazy." They just said, "Well, that's interesting . Maybe you'll do something with...
...became broken--and fallen sparks of the eternal were trapped in every aspect of our mundane existence. It is every human's duty, through good works, prayer and mystical contemplation, to raise the sparks back up to the Godhead and repair the world. In the 18th century, the reformer Ba'al Shem Tov's populist twist on this once secret tradition--that every humble act can be a celebration of God's immanent presence--became the heart of his own ecstatic orthodoxy, Hasidism...