Word: masterfulness
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...free. In the South Asian tradition of gurus and disciples, Mirwais lived with his teacher "like a son," recalls Mazari. He did household chores and spent hours each day practicing the broad range of vocal scales found in classical Afghan music. Mirwais came to revere his master. Today, when they meet, the boy's face glows, and he bows to touch his teacher's feet. "He has good talent," says Mazari, "and, by the kindness of Allah, when Mirwais is 40 years old or so, with practice, he will become great...
...harsh or absolute truth. The Pope’s philosophy of life, like Christ’s, was above all else this: it is difficult. It is not easy to do God’s will, it is not easy to pray every day, it is not easy to master your own base personal desires, it is not easy to confront death without fear, and it is not easy to care for the poor, meek, and lowly; yet that is what we are called to do. The pieces of advice that Pope John Paul II offered to the world varied...
...heed the highest calling of their hearts. He was the first Pope ever to visit a mosque, or launch a website, or commemorate the Holocaust at Auschwitz or find in a broken world so many saints of the church--more saints, in fact, than all his predecessors combined. Master of a dozen languages, he was the first modern Pope to visit Egypt, Spain, Canada, Cuba, Ireland or Brazil, the equivalent of circling the globe 31 times. To half the world's people, he was the only Pope they have ever known, or mourned. Thus the prayers came not just from...
When you've had enough of Rome's ancient ruins, Caravaggio paintings and Bernini buildings, drop into the De Chirico House-Museum for a bracing look at the life and work of a 20th century master. Giorgio de Chirico fused a classical eye with a disquieting imagination to create Metaphysical art-like the eerie Melancholy and Mystery of a Street (1914), which depicts the shadowy figure of a girl rolling a hoop into a piazza-and later breathed new life into the Baroque...
...Appreciation KENZO TANGE, who died last week at the age of 91 at his home in Tokyo, was more than just an internationally-renowned master builder. He was the house architect of Japan's post-war re-entry onto the world stage-the man who, more than any other, defined the nation's architectural identity in the last half of the 20th century. The University of Tokyo-trained Tange rocketed to fame with his 1949 design for the Peace Memorial Park at Hiroshima's ground zero, the concrete museum, arched cenotaph and mammoth public square of which managed...