Word: consciousnesses
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...about the entire school. It's about the kids involved doing the advertising, the marketing, the tech work, the costume work. And that extends out to the community, because they reach out to parents who also support in helping build stuff." Indeed, in sharp contrast to the cost-conscious commercial theater, high school directors seek out shows with the biggest casts possible. "You want as many opportunities for as many kids as you can have," says Christine Travalino, theater director at Pittsburgh Perry High School, which put on Urinetown this year. "A lot of the older shows just...
...government can cope with nature's worst. Beijing is aware of the backlash that can come from a slow or ineffective response. The Administration of U.S. President George W. Bush was stained by its sluggish reaction after Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans in 2005. Beijing is also painfully conscious of the opprobrium heaped on Burma's military rulers for their callous refusal to allow the international community to help in the wake of Cyclone Nargis, which killed at least 100,000 in early May. China has "a chance to show the world that it has the capability and readiness...
...When I remember the day, I remember concrete things. I remember how I last heard the door slam when my mother left, or the smell of the hair gel that I wore that day. Remembering days makes me conscious of the nature of loss, of the cruel synaesthesia of memory. It is a memory of my mother becoming a memory, of how 12 years of my life became the only years with my mother...
...There is an odd comfort to this feeling. It is a way of a new recollection, one in which I am ever more conscious of the passing of time, of the reliving of a different memory away from concrete things and attached to unfamiliar things. The most valuable lesson college has taught me thus far has been the adaptability of memory, the transference of recollection to a new set of catalysts. The brilliance of memory is that it is undying, but the emotion of recollection is one that must be constantly learned, channeled, and relived...
...think anyone would choose to be associated with something that many people see as helpless, hopeless, freakish. However, the flip side of that is having this illness has really forced me to become extremely responsible. It also really forces me to be very, very conscious of other people. It may have given me, not some super-special empathy, but a certain amount of empathy. It isn't hard for me to imagine other people in trouble. I'm not real judgmental because of it, I think. And like any big challenge in a life, it strengthens you. I think...