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...Persia's great poet, Jalal al-Din Rumi (1207-73), wrote of the union of the soul with God, its banishment to the world, and the impossibility of putting into words directions for finding the way back. But words were not all the great Rumi had; he taught his followers a way to dance themselves into a state of mystical union with the Divine. They became the famed sect of Mevlevi dervishes, who carried on their mystical method for seven centuries in monasteries throughout the Middle East. Known as the whirling dervishes, they are popularly confused with the Rifais...
...York Irishmen. Even when he went back "to where I had never been," i.e., to Ireland, he found that to his ears Gaelic sounded like Yiddish; and that the stay-at-home Irish-unlike their New York brothers who are constantly obliged to make themselves heard in the surrounding din-talk softly to each other...
When the hollow sound and meaningful fury of the Second World War had died away, a mature young British Columbian lawyer, who had served in the Royal Canadian army for five years, was weary of the din, and reflective, and not quite ready to go back to his law practice. So Captain John J. Conway, a company commander at the heroic Battle of Monte Cassino and winner of the Military Cross, left the colorful regimental kilts of the Seaforth Highlanders and came to Harvard to study history...
...work from east of the Mississippi. The whole cultural map of America is changing." He pointed to the paper-back I held. "He made it possible. He showed that a man with something to say, a voice of significance, a rare talent, can make itself heard no matter the din of garbage disposals and IBM machines." Even from the back streets and brothels of a hungry Paris...
LEONCAVALLO: "The perfect selection for carpet sweeping is the chorus in the first act of I Pagliacci, which opens 'Din, don.' Although this chorus seems to be an effort to get everyone into church, I know it is for carpet sweeping because it is introduced by several vigorous 'Andiam's' intended to get me started...