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Far from a warhorse, the show today looks surprisingly fresh, astringent, meaty and convention-defying. Unlike most of the other R&H shows, it is not set in an idealized small-town America or in a romanticized foreign land. There are no fantasy scenes or ballet-inspired dance numbers - the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Pacific is Back on Broadway...Finally | 4/3/2008 | See Source »

Golf, being a Scottish game, is steeped in Calvinist notions of sin and salvation. At most championship courses, a graceful swing from the tee will find the fairway, but when golfers err from the straight and narrow, they find themselves in the wilderness of the rough. The Augusta National Golf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Golf: Living History | 4/2/2008 | See Source »

Until 1999, Augusta, which hosts the Masters tournament each year over the second weekend of April, had no rough at all. Indeed, when its tournament committee finally introduced a light rough around some of its fairways, they couldn't bear to call it by its name, instead christening it "the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Golf: Living History | 4/2/2008 | See Source »

The centerpiece of this doomsday vision is the idea that civilization—which he defines as “a way of life characterized by the growth of cities”—is inherently unsustainable because it requires an ever-expanding input of resources and involves the...

Author: By Juliet S. Samuel | Title: Apocalyptic Visions | 4/2/2008 | See Source »

Another part of Jensen’s appeal (aside from personal charisma and his pet cat anecdotes) is that he that links up this modern disillusionment with a doctrine of apocalypse and redemption. In Jensen’s eco-feminist world, “nature” stands in for...

Author: By Juliet S. Samuel | Title: Apocalyptic Visions | 4/2/2008 | See Source »

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