Word: beliefs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...collectibles and Americana, from Beanie Babies to 18th century furniture, and the growth of the Internet, where surfers flock to online auction sites such as eBay and Auction Universe. In a nation full of junk keepers, Roadshow is sending its 10 million viewers rummaging through their attics in the belief that "you could find a sleeper." So says appraiser Leigh Keno, who, along with twin brother Leslie, has become a celebrity from his appearances...
...live your life, that's really the question, isn't it?" Via Dolorosa emerges naturally from an earlier play about the Church of England, Racing Demon, and also from a bold 1996 lecture Hare gave at Westminster Abbey called "When Shall We Live?" about the bankruptcy of religious belief. From writing political plays that verge on the lecture, that is, Hare has decided simply to lecture in an actorly manner. "I find the strategies of fiction more and more tiresome," he explains. "I cannot watch Hollywood films, which I know have been written to a three-act structure that...
Circumcision is, of course, nothing new. Egyptian priests practiced it as a purification rite more than 4,500 years ago. To this day, it is an important religious ritual in Islamic and Jewish communities worldwide. Circumcision became popular in the U.S. in the early 1900s, in the belief that it promoted good hygiene and discouraged masturbation. World War II veterans swore by its health benefits in unsanitary tropical conditions. Currently, more than two-thirds of U.S. infant boys are circumcised...
...Concord Museum, a natural first stop, provides a cram course in transcendentalism--the belief that the beauty of the natural world is a manifestation of divinity--as well as exhibits about transcendentalist writers Emerson, Thoreau and Bronson Alcott. They were all friends and neighbors, and the galleries reflect their coziness. A room replicating Emerson's study contains his circular writing table and books often borrowed by Louisa May Alcott. Next door is the Thoreau gallery, with the desk, bed and chair from that famous rustic cabin Thoreau built on Emerson's land at Walden Pond, as well as Thoreau...
...disassembled to patch a barn and roof a pig sty. But the site is marked by a cairn of rocks, started by Bronson Alcott after Thoreau died in 1862 and supplemented over the years by reverent visitors. Nearby, a facsimile of Thoreau's tiny, spartan home reflects his belief that freedom lay in simplicity. "I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself," he wrote, "than be crowded on a velvet cushion...