Word: discernment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...salarymen. But as some of these children reach adulthood, they begin to ask questions for which this narrowest of training provides no answers. The word for them then is majime, whose direct translation is earnest. They are in search of meaning but unequipped with the tools normally used to discern it. They grasp at any world vision they are offered. ufos perhaps; perhaps fortune telling, channeling, yoga or mind control. Once lured, they pursue their new faith with the stupendous energy of the lost...
...sense, that's all you can ever safely say about Hollywood. The problem has always been to discern, in advance, in helpful detail, how to pass Go and (nowadays) collect $200 million domestic, God knows what in the ancillaries. For movie trends-or even individual hits-do not reveal themselves until they are actually thundering down on us. No executive, no agent, certainly no mere movie reviewer usually spots one until it is actually rolling over his toes, sharp pain belatedly signaling where the most money is likely to be found for the next few months-and that the victim...
...program's opening work, the world premiere of Elena Ruehr's "Shimmer." The title is hardly programmatic, since no word could better describe the texture of the piece (unless the reviewer has unconsciously fallen victim to suggestion). Though the structure of Ruehr's work was difficult to discern, its series of crests and ebbs made use of time-honored techniques of string orchestration. For instance, convincingly brass-like timbres often poured forth from the violas. Apart from an exaggerated consciousness of the piece's beats, especially in the several fugal sections, one could fairly say that Metamorphosen...
...Dahl's Charlie,peering through the wrought-iron fence of WillyWonka's Chocolate Factory and dreaming of what laybehind its imposing walls. During the half-hour wewaited at the bike store, no one entered or leftthe building. From the partial view we had intothe upper floor windows, we could discern nomovements inside.B-12...
Most of the people at CfA advise against tryingto discern which branch, Harvard or Smithsonian,is responsible for which projects...