Word: contradictionsã
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...always thought that Southerners made natural writers because of the need to explain themselves. How else does one cope with so many contradictions??between geniality and racism, piety and violence—than by organizing thoughts on a page...
...interrogation—led in the play by actor Polk, who brings an explosive energy to Mohr’s doubts and contradictions??is tense and thick with words, ideas, and inspiration. Polk ably acts as the central pivot of the play and is brilliantly convincing in his portrayal of an individual truly torn between bureaucracy and humanity...
...brothers to each other. By extension, a belief in tawhid is a belief in social equality. One who believes that humans are brothers also must believe that humans are worthy of the same treatment. “Legal, class, social, political, racial, national, territorial, genetic or even economic contradictions?? are not accepted by tawhid, says the 20th century Muslim philosopher Ali Shariati, “for it [tawhid] implies a mode of looking upon all being as a unity.” Thus, the killers were acting contrary to the spirit of tawhid by killing...
Although Laika’s fourth record seems easy to pigeonhole on first listen, it’s defined by contradictions??an accessible beat-driven album that takes its title from a poem by Poet Laureate Mark Strand; a downtempo album that actually has lyrical content; an electronica album comprised largely of organic instruments. Vocalist Margaret Fiedler even lends wispy guitar sounds to the mix, and with skittering electronic beats complemented by drummer Lou Ciccotelli, Laika seem to move in spheres close to those of their Russian cosmodog namesake...
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