Word: elysian
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...lived again. The motif recurred in the later books of the Hebrew Bible, sometimes in combination with a nationalistically tinged Messianism or the re-establishment of a paradise located in a new Jerusalem. In Greece the privileged dead gradually came to inhabit the Isles of the Blessed, later the Elysian fields, and in the 4th century B.C. Plato championed the concept of judgment after death in his Gorgias, and, in Phaedrus, postulated an immortal soul that strove ever upward after gaining its freedom from the flesh. What made Jesus' synthesis of these traditions new was the teaching that heavenly happiness...
...simple ancient virtue of sport. But in time too much of athletic competition has come to be writ in mythic proportions. Sports heroes loom larger than life. A sense of god-like immortality accompanies the "thrill" of victory. The divide between life's reality and the fantasy of Elysian fields is being trampled by the universalized pursuit of fame and glory through athletics...
...real do-or-die thing for me." Still caught up by Bach, he adapted several two- and three-part inventions for students at the School of American Ballet. Working with people "at the beginning of life" restored his energy. Now 2 & 3 Part Inventions, a work of elysian balance and serenity, is performed at N.Y.C.B...
...Angeles is fully capable of producing tremors up to a magnitude of 7.5, or about 15 times the energy of the 20-second Northridge quake. What would happen if that pulse roared for 40 or 50 seconds--higher-magnitude quakes typically shudder for 60 seconds or more--through the Elysian Park fault under downtown Los Angeles? ``The only way to get a full picture of how buildings react in an earthquake is to have one,'' says Thomas Heaton, a Geological Survey seismologist. But computer simulations undertaken by Heaton and collaborators show that steel- frame high-rises could have their feet...
What scientists can do, with fair reliability, is estimate the magnitude of tremors likely to occur on a particular fault. In general, the longer the rupture, the more powerful the expected quake. Unlike the San Andreas, the Elysian Park system is not large enough to unleash an earthquake of magnitude 8. But some scientists believe it might be capable of a 7 or even a 7.5, especially if more than one fault segment should give way at the same time. This is what happened in 1992, when the Landers earthquake hopscotched from one fault to another, in the process gathering...