Word: faithfully
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...away from it? Even "facing it" with discussion implies that discussion absolves the performers of any damage done. Yet the alternative is to stop performing the St. John Passion, a piece that is moving even to many whom it offends and is based on a story essential to the faith of millions. The panel discussion unearthed a question too horrible to be answered lightly: What do we do with the foundations of our culture when we no longer approve of them? We can't simply throw them out. Out of tradition and aesthetic fashion, Bach's St. John Passion will...
...some of the large crowd of Passover diners came simply to socialize, sharing in the holiday activity, if not the faith...
When we meet the grown Harlan on the Greyhound bus handing out brochures for her faith-healing business and discussing water tanks with as much fervor as a pilgrim at a reliquary, her mother's concern about Harlan's grasp on "reality" begins to seem justified. Starting from the Spirit of Scandinavia Sardines, Harlan's train of thought takes off and plows through an existence where there is no boundary between the real and the unreal, the true and the untrue. From sardines she jumps to the slave-ships of the Middle Passage, to the fake Moroccan leather...
Harlan's middle name is Truth, after Sojourner,and like her namesake, she returns to the site ofher imprisonment after discovering her own routeto freedom. Harlan is a faith healer, freeingpeople from their ailments by instilling in themfaith in the unbelievable. Just as GrandmotherJaboti was imprisoned by belief in her turtleshell, a Ms. Lee's sinus infection is healed byher faith in clear passages. While new definitionsof truth and untruth based on the randomexperiences of one ordinary woman take somegetting used to, the freedom that Harlan attainssimply by looking at the details of existence in adifferent way is both extraordinary...
...students here have done a tremendousamount of work around farm-worker issueshistorically, and this year in particular," shesaid. "I have faith that Harvard will do the rightthing about farm-worker issues even though thegrape boycott was overturned...