Word: chosen
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...very intensive process, but the creativity is remarkable.” The show will contain nine vignettes depicting the “Navarasa,” the moods of love, compassion, fury, fear, wonder, disgust, peace, humor, and valor. Instead of focusing on Hindu mythology, the directors have chosen stories and concepts from many different cultures and time periods. Helen Keller, the resurrection of Jesus Christ, child labor, and King Ashoka all make it into the show. Bharatha Natyam as a dance style facilitates storytelling in two ways, through its pure dance elements (“nritta?...
...fierce following in Arizona–and focus on your own. The only concept more ingrained in Harvard students than the election is the vague concept of our mental superiority, our supreme privilege to walk into Harvard classrooms, and our uneasy discomfort with being the “chosen ones.” While we can debate the merits of these claims, let us instead use our mental gifts to choose the right leader for tomorrow: John McCain...
...What If He Loses?" ta-nehisi coates reflects on the "loud sucking of the teeth" and "resignation" with which Barack Obama's defeat would be met by the black community [Oct. 20]. If Obama loses the election, the disappointment will be widespread and multiracial because voters will have chosen to continue down a path of political, fiscal and diplomatic disaster. Let's dispense with the black-white distinction. We're all Americans. Peter F. Hartwick, Candler...
...campaign, and even in American history,” said Sunstein, who was Obama’s colleague at the University of Chicago. Randall L. Kennedy, another Law School professor advising Obama, said he was “not surprised” to learn that Fried had chosen to support the Democratic candidate. Both Sunstein and Kennedy noted that Fried was a “thoughtful” member of the right whose views have always been more libertarian than conservative. Fried has, for example, supported keeping abortion services legal. Kennedy pointed not only to the much-debated choice...
...faculty without tenure may feel uncomfortable expressing a conservative viewpoint.“The worst consequence of this is that many of our best students have not gone into the academy if they have a conservative-tending outlook,” Wisse said. “Or they have chosen to camouflage it far into their careers, so that it would not jeopardize their position.”Wisse and Mansfield also charge that what they see as the liberal slant of the faculty has led the College to omit certain specialties from the curriculum, such as military history...