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...addiction is drinking decaf, with the hope that I could maybe trick my body into thinking it was getting the real thing. Well, it didn't work for me any better than it did for them, and perhaps that's why rehab centers today don't recommend snorting flower as an intermediate step for recovering crack junkies...
WHEN JOHN WHITLEY WANDERS INTO the courtyard of Camp H, he is not just any visitor. He is the warden. The Man. Yet his presence stirs hardly a ripple. He inspects a flower bed, points to some asbestos dangling from a pipe. Mostly he just loiters, signaling that he is open for business. Slowly, as if they have all the time in the world (which, of course, many of them do), half a dozen inmates drift his way. One complains about missing laundry; another asks that recreational time be extended. All are polite, but none display the eagerness of someone...
...have to realize that you have to allow allparts of yourself to bloom and flower to becomethe fullest self possible," he said...
...became creative in my concentration: picturing a lotus flower floating on the water--away on the inhale, back on the exhale--and, crowned by white Enlightened petals, the number of the breath. I actually cleared my mind of the deadlines and the thoughts that pressed to the forefront; Harvard-on-the-brain was left behind, and the calm breath floated to the fore. It was a moment of serenity...
...word-of-mouth favorite of emigre artists like violinist Gidon Kremer, Schnittke, 58, has a firm grasp of structure, a masterly hand with orchestration and, most important, a distinctive, expressive voice. A new London/Decca recording of Schnittke's Concerti Grossi Nos. 3 and 4 displays his gifts in full flower. The Third (1985) harks back to Bach in a tour de force of stylistic synthesis, while the 1988 Fourth (which, confusingly, the composer also calls his Symphony No. 5) takes an unfinished work by Mahler as its launching pad. Riccardo Chailly and the Amsterdam Concertgebouw achieve lift-off and soar...