Word: gravely
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...grandson this ritual is supposed to guarantee. The searching need for faith is written on the faces of the Chinese who pace each day, by the thousands, through the "Confucian forest" in Qufu. There, among the 600-year-old birch trees, are buried 77 generations of Confucius' descendants. Their graves, trashed and looted during the Cultural Revolution, have been rebuilt and remade in this decade. During the Cultural Revolution, in the 1960s, angry adolescent Red Guards dug up Confucius' grave, the most sacred spot in the forest, to show the Chinese that it was empty, that their Confucian faith...
...were alerted to the possible presence of GHB at the College last weekend, when Harvard police were called to a University residence for a medical emergency. Two people who were visiting friends at the residence and had ingested GHB and alcohol were taken to Mt. Auburn Hospital in grave physical distress, where they received life-saving medical treatment in the intensive care unit...
...Scouting Report] Seems like a perfect match: the youngsters who watch MTV meet the geezers who prefer 60 Minutes, all packaged as cradle-to-grave, one-stop shopping for advertisers. But cross-media selling is still unproven...
...much to base accusations of anti-Semitism on," remarks historian Father Pierre Blet of the 1919 letter. A similar tendentiousness, he says, mars Cornwell's whole work: "He ignores a great deal of material which doesn't fit his theory and makes grave accusations without supplying the evidence." Blet was one of four Jesuits who compiled the official 12-volume record of Pius' war years from Vatican archives. He too has a new book: a useful summary titled Pius XII and the Second World War. Blet maintains that the 1933 pact was "practically imposed by Hitler." And papal power...
Shatter stylishly, one must add. The writing by Alan Ball, whose first produced screenplay this is, consistently surprises--not so much in what it says, but in how it says it. He even risks having his story narrated by Lester from beyond the grave and makes Billy Wilder's old trick seem fresh. And the stage's Sam Mendes, also making his first film, dares a touch of expressionism, which we happily indulge, partly because he knows when to stop, mostly because the energy and conviction he and his cast bring to this movie do not permit second thoughts...