Word: exceptionality
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...source of wife and child abuse. The church is concerned, says spokesman Michael R. Otterson, about the show's "making polygamy the subject of entertainment." But Scheffer says, "This show is not really about polygamy, in the same way that The Sopranos is not really about the Mob." Except that Tony Soprano only has one family at home--to handle three, that takes real guts. And a little blue pill...
...society. I just went to an interesting evangelical conference, and throughout, rock bands were playing. The rock-'n'-roll culture within the evangelical world is indistinguishable in terms of the sound of the music from the rock culture that came out of a very different, irreligious secular tradition, except that the words are about Jesus--love and all that. They're not resisting outside culture, they're embracing it and kind of making it their own. I think intelligent design and Christian rock are similar. It's about taking up form from the outside and trying to Christianize it. Does...
...Abby Eliot, and Mary Burrage, specifically objected to. “On June 21, 1915 a committee was elected to plan the reorganization of the club,” writes Radcliffe Archivist Jane Knowles in an e-mail. “Unfortunately the records peter out at that point except for the reunion suppers that continue until June 18, 1923. We can’t prove when the club folded or why because we have no documents; we can only surmise that it dwindled into a reunion of alumnae of the club...
...also spoofing the general trend in news to pander to emotion, to value graphics over thinking, gut over brain. "That, I think, is the nutmeat of the show," he tells me. "Enough mind. We tried mind for a long time, and what has it gotten us? You know, except for vaccinations." Credit Colbert's gut or his head for The Colbert Report, but his pontificating deserves a standing bloviation...
Following the request for “Cubs in Five,” Darnielle promised us, instead, a song “just like Cubs in Five, except it’s all about death and loss.” At the center of his set, he placed one of the closing pieces of “Sunset Tree,” the usually somber elegy “Love Love Love.” The song starts at the periphery of a child’s education: “King Saul fell on his sword?...