Word: gilbert
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Hehir, the Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of Practice of Religion and Public Life at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG), was cautious in condemning the cartoons...
Elizabeth Gilbert is, in her own words, "the kind of person who, when a ninth-generation Indonesian medicine man tells you that you're destined to move to Bali and live with him for four months, thinks you should make every effort to do that." She is also exactly the kind of person a ninth-generation Indonesian medicine man would say that to: charming, blond, gregarious, spiritually curious and highly mobile...
...Gilbert was going through a painful, sobbing-on-the-bathroom-floor divorce. So she pulled an Under the Tuscan Sun and embarked on a year of travel, divided neatly into thirds like a tub of Neapolitan ice cream. She would visit Italy to explore pleasure, India to study devotion and Indonesia to look into whatever people do in Indonesia ("balance" is her word for it). Then she would write an engaging, intelligent and highly entertaining memoir about it called Eat Pray Love (Viking; 352 pages...
...maybe surprisingly, the Pray section turns out to be the most interesting part. Gilbert can overcharm at times--she suffers from an addiction to cleverness--but her account of her time in India is beautiful and honest and free of patchouli-scented obscurities. To read about her struggles with a 182-verse Sanskrit chant, or her (successful) attempt to meditate while being feasted on by mosquitoes, is to come about as close as you can to enlightenment-by-proxy. She even has an ecstatic brush with Nirvana, which leaves her with a comforting insight into heaven: "You may return here...
...music director Ben E. Green ’06 steadfastly resists categorization. Not only did Green, a classically trained pianist, begin his directing career supervising a high school production of “Honk!” he has also been involved with organizations as diverse as the Gilbert and Sullivan Players, the Harvard Pops Orchestra, and the Hasty Pudding Theatricals (HPT). Green’s eclectic tastes have even come to dictate his daily routine over the past few months. He has spent his daytime working on the score for this year’s HPT show...