Word: demonism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...this exam, mark Y for Yes. It's got power and depth, and two kings whose greatness is diluted by hubris, and a thrilling dragon fight, and the demon Grendel as a tortured outcast, and a naked monster who looks a lot like Angelina Jolie. In their use of "performance capture," a technique that fans of traditional animation view with the sternest skepticism, the film's makers have managed to show more acute behavioral emotion, as well as some fantastic images uncapturable in live action. You want to read Beowulf? Get the book, I'm not stopping you. You want...
...exploits in abridged Urdu versions adapted for children - virtually the sole form in which the epic survived into the 20th century. Farooqi, who admits to not being the most diligent student, would drift into daydreams inspired by the stories in class, imagining, he says, that he was a demon "running around with a tree trunk and clobbering humans with it." In university, he frequently shirked his prescribed engineering curriculum for a pile of dog-eared folk tales scrounged from secondhand bookstores. The mythological universe that his favorite hero had led him into was simply too intoxicating to leave...
...Urdu-speaking readers can at last appreciate an epic "on par with anything in the Western canon." And, with luck, the classical pantheon populated by indomitable Achilles, cunning Odysseus and righteous King Arthur will now be joined by a new beloved hero: mercurial, mighty Amir Hamza, astride his winged-demon steed, soaring to the heavens...
...HCSUCS).Such stand-up comedy groups have no real precedent at Harvard, but Greenbaum and Ingber have managed to gain a foothold for HCSUCS in the world of the arts on campus, as well as the world at large.GESTATIONThe gestation of the group began in 2006 at the annual Demon Comedy Festival, when Greenbaum and Ingber recognized a void in the Darwinian social order of campus organizations.Within a matter of months, the group was functional, producing seven shows and participating in five more.“They were unequivocally all successful,” says Greenbaum...
...Ingber ’07 and Harrison R. Greenbaum ’08—were already participating in a growing comedic presence on Harvard’s campus. Greenbaum, a magician by trade who was later bitten by the stand-up bug, performed at Harvard’s Demon ComedyFest his freshman year. Greenbaum returned his sophomore year, where co-founder Ingber entertained viewers with comedy songs strummed on his guitar. “I thought his stuff was unbelievable,” Greenbaum says of Ingber’s act. The two talked afterward...