Word: feasting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
This show is an auditory feast, but everything except the music leaves something to be desired. Kurt Weill's theater music is one of the glories of the modern stage-haunting, melodious, perfectly wedded to the lyrics. Such songs as Pirate Jenny, Alabama Song, My Ship and Lost in the Stars do more than fill an audience with pleasure. They are incarnations of beauty in sound...
...have gathered here," Corrado Cardinal Ursi told the crowd in Naples' cathedral, "not to watch a show, but to witness a miracle." This year, on the late-September feast of San Gennaro (St. Januarius), the miracle came off so smoothly that no one even had to shout the traditional insults of "big stinker" or "green face" at the saint to make his blood boil. It took only 40 minutes of prayer by the cardinal and the local populace for the dark crystalline substance-venerated as the 4th century martyr's blood-to liquefy in its hermetically sealed glass...
...that point, a family approached and asked for tickets to a free vegetarian feast to be hosted by the Krishna community. The ascetic gave the tickets gladly, smiling at the family as it strolled away. He observed how obvious it was that he had just dealt with humans and not with beasts; they were sensitive, warm, and compassionate people. I had observed only their friendliness and their desire for free food...
JOURNEY'S END A feast for worms, a season in hell make up the grim menu and locale of R.C. Sherriffs play. In war. Death never retreats; the fear of it is the one bad dream from which the soldier cannot awaken. The undescribed campaign of every war is the tactical offensive that men improvise against Death. Ostensibly, this play is about British officers in a World War I bunker on the edge of no man's land as they prepare to meet a big German attack. The strength and verity of the work is that these...
...COMING OF AGE, Simone de Beauvoir recounts the plot of the ancient Japanese novel Narayama. It tells of the primitive custom, the "Feast of the Dead", the execution of village elders who have become a burden on their children, or have merely reached an untenable age. "Do the sacrificed elders often have a reaction of dread and rebellion?" de Beauvoir asks. She thinks evidence proves they do. Yet spanning the centuries as well as the distance between East and West, she concludes that old age has become life's parody in all societies, an end to life so degrading that...