Word: garbed
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...ritual chanting and most hearty house rivalry in Annenberg. Naturally, each house views with great anticipation the day when it will take possession of several dozen new happy souls. But one less happy consequence of this feeling is the fierce debate, already raging on house lists, over the garb in which they shall enrobe their novitiates. Internal strife has engulfed Quincy, Winthrop, and Mather, among others, prompting students to wage ferocious verbal battle in an attempt to persuade each other that their T-shirt design is, indeed, the best. As Charles J. Swanson ’08, one particularly zealous...
...21st-century Thomas Jefferson, decked out in 19th-century garb, took to the Widener Library steps on Friday to announce he was seeking a long-delayed third term. Surrounded by supporters holding signs for the 2008 campaign, August “Gus” Jaccaci ’60, a longtime impersonator of the third president and a self-described “former educator and futurist,” made the announcement on the day of his 70th birthday. (The real Jefferson, for the record, would turn 264 in April.) Jaccaci’s write-in campaign...
...sectarian divide I have ever read in the mainstream media. Unlike many other non-Muslim commentators, Bobby Ghosh correctly realizes that the root of the fighting in Iraq (and in other parts of the Islamic world) is not religion but politics. The warring parties cloak themselves in religious garb and quote suras to suit their agendas, but at the end of the day their objective is not religious legitimacy but political supremacy. It is amazing how many Western writers miss that point--and all the more to Ghosh's credit that he grasps...
...inevitable that religious belief, as well as anger, would give hip-hop a special twist. A 30-year-old Miami native who recently moved to Israel, Jew Da Maccabi found rap before religion, but he's now putting his religion into his rap. He dons the black garb and practices the habits of an ultra-orthodox Jew, with a few hip-hop accessories such as a Yankees baseball cap instead of a broad-brimmed black hat. "After I became religious, I remembered what my rabbi said: 'Take what you did before, and flip it to holiness,'" says Maccabi...
...tourists and native aficionados. Oslo is currently completing its own dramatic hall, located at the edge of a fjord, that promises a pristine acoustic environment. The Palau is also taking risks on unusual performances. Classic crowd-pleasers like Don Giovanni and Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle appear in new garb: La Fura dels Baus, the avant-garde theater troupe best known for its choreography of the Barcelona Olympic Games' opening ceremonies, is staging the latter. Inventive new works are being set as well: Milos Forman, for example, is building Well-Paid Walk - what he calls a jazz opera - around pieces...