Word: moment
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...slight distancing effect of the music is countered by the characters' frequent exhortations to the audience, made especially effective in a small theater like the Loeb Ex. As the play heads towards its catastrophic ending, and Creon receives a come-uppance beyond his wildest nightmares, there is a brief moment in which the General (David Modigliani '02) reflects on the horrors of the Civil War. He describes seeing dead soldiers' bodies on the ground, futilely lamenting that he never expected to see a sight so gruesome. The play's main focus is on the personal misfortunes of the House...
...half-way point for FM this semester and the quarter-mile mark of our year-long haul. It has been six weeks, six issues, over a dozen production nights, a handful of hissy fits and two all-nighters. So far, we're holding up alright. But I fear this moment may just come and go--no slideshow, no reminiscing, scarcely a celebratory bottle of brew. It's not that we're not nostalgic--it just seems that we don't have many classic moments...
...Still, what is truly learned from the study of literature is not something that can be written on a syllabus. It is a side-effect, a moment when something clicks...
Still, what is truly learned from the study of literature is not something that can be written on a syllabus. It is a side-effect, a moment when something clicks...
Although the recent upswing in capital punishment has put the spotlight on a parade of evildoers, they have tended to come straight out of Central Casting : poor, lower-class hard-luck cases for whom murder was the defining moment of their lives -- think Karla Faye Tucker, or Texas dragging murderer James William King. But the death sentence handed down Tuesday to former state prosecutor and political adviser Thomas Capano for the murder of a secretary to the governor of Delaware brings the death penalty to a far more rarefied social stratum. Indeed, when was the last time a rich, powerful...