Word: canonized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Deserves It: Hershey, whose canon of work has been at least as interesting as Bacall's, and never so shattering as her scheming, wounded Madame Merle in Portrait...
...respect for opposing view-points and for a commitment to open-mindedness. It is scary because of the mailer's juvenile effort at intimidation and attempt to stifle free debate. Free speech, dialogue, and interchange in the "marketplace of ideas" are the very foundation of the liberal canon. What would John Stuart Mill have said? (My personal message to the not-so-intellectual hate-mailers, politics aside, is to learn the subtle difference between the ancient Buddhist symbol which they drew and the swastika which they tried to draw...
...student representatives? Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes? Should it even be the administrative board of Memorial Church whose job it is to decide in this case? Or should it be the word of the Lord God Almighty given to the authors of Christianity's canon, the Bible, through inspiration by the Holy Spirit? I would hope that even those on the council would be willing to admit they have yet to reach divinity...
...elegist. "All the things we talked about," he says of Cookie when he thinks she might be dead, "things she wanted to do--then she ups and dies. I don't wanna go out like that." Later he speaks one of the most introspective lines in the Afro-action canon: "Somehow I don't think this was my parents' dream for me." With Shakur's death, Hollywood lost part of its own dream to become a robust rainbow cinema. Gridlock'd gives a taste of what the movies are going to miss...
...Brits so taken with the American canon? As odd as it may seem to some Anglophiles, they find the work superior to much of what British theater is turning out these days. "The Americans offer us something we don't get in contemporary British plays," says David Thacker, director of the National's Death of a Salesman and a longtime champion of Arthur Miller's work. "They are very emotionally powerful plays--they reach the heart as well as the head. They are psychologically profound and truthful. And the best are strong on narrative. We'd have to look back...