Word: celtic
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...sections, territory has been established, the discussions take on a certain character, sleep patterns solidify. Maybe the kid next to you in the baseball jacket complains to you after class and slowly, you notice, class isn't as great as you thought. Maybe your whole tutorial is fascinated by Celtic poetry and you find yourself looking forward weekly meetings despite yourself. Where does the consensus come from? It's all in the details: an off-hand remark that someone makes, a perfect characterization, the collective curve-setting on the midterm. Slowly, the class opinion converges to a mean...
None of these outbursts, however, seemed to have an effect on me. If anything, my interests became more and more esoteric as I progressed. For example, what was once a Social Anthropology special field became Celtic Languages and Literatures instead. I find myself crawling around the subterranean levels of Widener digging up Gaelic texts about to crumble to dust...
Lost in the bogs of Celtic myth, Yeats--unlike many of his peers in the modernist pantheon--was not much interested in modern design and architecture's streamlining ways. Or in the ability of books and magazines more and more perfectly to replicate artistic icons past and present. Or in the capacity of the movies to create their own time and space, independent of observed reality. We must imagine him, instead, mourning with the great critic Walter Benjamin the destruction of the artwork's "aura" or magic, deriving from its uniqueness, its firm roots in a specific historical place...
...remaining members of Bradley's Massachusetts team are Nikki Tsongas, widow of former Sen. Paul Tsongas; former Boston Celtic John Havlicek and former U.S. Representative and state Attorney General James Shannon...
...BILL RUSSELL, Hall of Fame Boston Celtic Center...