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Nobel Prize-winning Nigerian poet and political dissident Wole Soyinka delivered the second of three lectures before a crowd of about 200 at Emerson Hall yesterday...
Soyinka will deliver the final lecture of the series, "A Lesson from the Balafon" today at 5 p.m. in Emerson...
Several Boston-area artists and professors at Boston College, Emerson College, MIT and Tufts University also received fellowships...
...what will our criteria be? Is a cult defined by the smallness of the congregation? Then what of those who follow Emerson or Whitman in observing a religion of one? Is it characterized by a lack of ancient scriptures? Then why does an Internet index call the old and established faith of Zoroastrianism a cult? Is it a function of a group's distance from orthodoxy? Then what of Jesus or Buddha or Muhammad--all of them heretics in their...
...wake of last week's tragedy, some reflexively pointed their fingers at California, where belief is famously privatized, and reality, as in some dumbed-down version of Emerson, is often regarded as a vanity plate to be custom-made. In the privileged town of Santa Barbara, California, where I sit, the hills are alive with the sound of mantra--from John-Roger, the Texan guru of Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington, down the road; from the New Age preacher Marianne Williamson, closer to downtown; and even from the radio station on which I heard last week a minister speak rabidly...