Word: mantras
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...afternoon sunlight streamed through the windows of the Adams House Upper Common Room yesterday as Sameer A. Sheth '98 led the chanting of the Shantipath mantra, a traditional Hindu peace invocation...
...globe; after taking himself off dialysis; in Austin, Texas. While a Navy lieutenant during World War II, Michener began writing Tales of the South Pacific, a collection of stories that won him the Pulitzer Prize and Rodgers and Hammerstein's attention. Location, location, location was Michener's mantra: Hawaii, Alaska, Poland and, yes, even Space are a few of his titles. Michener rarely wavered from the formula that sold 75 million copies of his 40-odd books: he traveled to a chosen place, researched it exhaustively, then wrote workmanlike tomes peopled with real and imaginary characters. "There are a whole...
...mantra of the album is the refrain of its second track, "Good Life," where the women incant in a breezy calypso lilt, "I'm livin' a good life, no more trouble in sight." Beginning with their Calvin Coolidge duds on the CD cover, the ladies propound a hip-hop-capitalist work ethic throughout Brand New. Sure they are "Livin' good, like a Nubian Queen should," but only because, as honorary member Spinderella puts it later in the track, "I busted my ass to get to the cream...
...movie rental (the Belgian crime drama Man Bites Dog). But he displays no loosey-gooseyness about what he wants. He quickly rejects stories that sound even remotely as if they could spring from the mouth of Steve Dunleavy. During the past months, he has told the world in almost mantra-like fashion that he doesn't want his show tainted by the whiff of salaciousness. "There are a lot of other people doing those stories," he reasons. "Commercially, it's not viable. It's a crowded arena. If someone wants to say that's a crass, commercial decision, well, fine...
...whirling drum loops and synth sounds have a mantra-like effect: repeated enough times it seems to take you out of the music. Autoditacker is very atmospheric, moody and dark, though never nihilistic. At many times it is intense, edgy and driving. Despite this, the emotional range expressed is somewhat narrow. Perhaps this is a limit of electronic music not even the mighty Mouse on Mars can overcome, as the instruments don't allow the musician to control the subtle nuances of timbre and emotion that he could with a cello or tenor saxophone. Maybe the range of musical expression...