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Having reduced nationhood—or at least its emblematic expression—to a set of shapes, Miller assigns a geometric pattern to each of the characters in Birth, and then allows Griffith’s Birth to pick up the fragments of splintered national identity. At the climax of Griffith’s myth, veterans of the Union and the Confederacy realize that they share the common bond of an “Aryan birthright”—and they defend this birthright from a mob of marauding Negroes...
...over, eventually shifting it around until he came to a new variation, then shifting it even more and incorporating the hook from R.E.M.’s classic “Seven Chinese Brothers.” Then he swirled the section around into a roaring and wholly original climax before rising again to quietly declare the song’s anthemic call to arms: “We’re lining up the light-loafers / And the bored bench-warmers / Castaways and cutouts… / Come join the youth and beauty brigade?...
...next meet for the entire team is the climax of the season—the Heptagonal championships in which Harvard will race for the Ivy League crown...
...melodies of some of the better songs (“La Lune” and “Muscle, Bone and Blood” in particular), the soaring musical heights of “The Last Night of Winter” (with its Belle and Sebastian horns and gorgeous climax) and the Smiths-like “Deep at Sea” propel Todd’s words into a space where they become more than scattered poetry...
After skating with this year’s Harvard team during its practices, Ruggiero thinks the Crimson has a bright future as the season develops and reaches its climax...