Word: benightedness
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This is only the work of a poet benighted;
In the benighted annals of Columbia football, Saturday, September 23, 1978 will remain forever a halcyon day, as the Lions shocked Harvard, 21-19, before an opening day crowd at Harvard Stadium. The last Columbia victory in Cambridge came in 1961 when the Lions were led by a sinewy guard...
The film does not shrink from portraying the natives as largely a benighted, scruffy lot who are driven to practicing their own reciprocal racism. Two uncomprehending priests, being borne in divans by sweating natives, are charmed by a work song that actually says, "My white man is fat as a...
Seltzer has ample material to work with. Take Tom Fuller. Having played just about every male lead in recent G&S history, from Ralph Rackstraw to Nanki Poo, Fuller last year went backstage to direct a first-class Iolanthe. Now he's back as Frederic, the pirate apprentice, and he...
Still, the exhibition is rich with detail. One realizes, with fresh interest, how cramped the visual resources of Jefferson's Virginian education must have been; his own remark on local architecture in 1781, that "the first principles of the art are unknown," is borne out in other fields by...