Word: mindedness
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She dances with the single-minded intensity of the divine. On her head she balances a solid granite boulder, symbol of her mortal burdens. Round and round in syncopated steps, her open palms fluttering up and down in tireless supplication, she strives toward ecstasy. On and on she circles to...
Few Westerners know this kind of faith--idiosyncratic individual devotion at its most physical. There are no glittering ceremonies or grand processions, no public professions, no dramatic visions, only 10,000 acts of private veneration, prayer, supplication. What the stranger sees is the collective reverence of the like-minded in...
1 RAGTIME The musical version of E.L. Doctorow's best-selling novel could have been a high-minded bore, a musical for people who hate musicals. Or, given all the promotional hype (the show has been trumpeted seemingly since the Ice Age), another mega-disappointment. In fact, it turns out...
Still, it took some behind-the-scenes maneuvering to get the two sides together. Clinton had been telling British Prime Minister Tony Blair for months that he might need last-minute help in closing the deal. That moment apparently came on Tuesday afternoon last week, when Clinton called Blair to...
But the impatient should consider this: Dayton is starting to work. And Clinton deserves credit. Reporting from the region, TIME's Alexandra Stiglmayer says that over the last five months the U.S. has dragged NATO from its passive role into a boldly interventionist one -- arresting war criminals, removing obstructionist police...