Word: fleetingness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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For a fleeting time, a day or two at most, all things are possible for an extraordinary group of cells that form part of a newly created embryo. Known as embryonic stem cells, they have the capacity to grow into any sort of tissue the body will need--nerves, blood...
Their second selection, Heinrich Isaak's Motet Virgo Prudentissima, seemed by contrast to start off with redemption. In a slower, more contemplative tempo, the choir boys looked ready to shine. Without being drowned out by the older choir, the sopranos and altos united in the production of haunting, luscious strains...
October 28, like January 1, December 25 (I am Jewish, but that just makes it worse) and December 26 (Canadian Boxing Day), had always been an anticlimactic experience. But because this birthday would be less a fleeting blur of metallic balloons and singing cards than a crossing over into the...
Play's done. School bell rings. Parents cling to fleeting things: hopes, fears, loves, dreams--time.
The dangerous part now is not the President's distraction by scandal and the prospect of impeachment. The risk lies, rather, in something that the Lewinsky-Rwanda convergence shows: Clinton's willingness to use words as if he did not understand that they have real meanings and consequences, as if...