Word: moons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...genius leaps across the centuries. When he seeks explanations, for example, of the faint glow between the horns of the crescent moon or the origin of fossils, he is nearly a century ahead of the scientific thought of his day. He correctly attributes lunar light to solar rays reflected from the Earth. Like Galileo, he risks ecclesiastical wrath by rejecting the belief that fossils were deposited on mountaintops by Noah's flood (because, he argues, a deluge would have scattered them helter-skelter rather than leaving them in orderly assemblages). And though his mind-set remains medieval, he demonstrates...
This approach is especially problematic when one tries to incorporate rituals from specific religions into these universalist events. An excellent example is the ill-received Harvest Moon Festival that took place in Dunster House this October. The event involved rituals of harvest-time holidays of three religions. To be sure, these holidays share a great deal in common. But students of all three faiths were offended because the event mushed everything together and blurred important boundaries. This sort of format works for a content-less holiday party but is inappropriate when it serves as the basis for a substantive interfaith...
...event also could have included a run-through of the rituals and liturgy of Easter. The key is that the integrity of different rituals must be maintained. The experience of the Dunster House Harvest Moon Festival should not discourage future interfaith events; of all the attempts to deal with religion in the houses, it is the only one that has tried to tackle the issue in an honest and substantive way. It would have worked had it allowed time for each religion to present itself...
...students who were elected are Zahir Asmal, Melissa E. Fuchs, Bruce L. Gottlieb, Janna J. Hansen, Jerry Y. Hsu, Megan L. Peimer, David A. Sobel and Nicholas Stavropoulos from Adams House; Ryan J. Bradley, Elizabeth A. Davis, Chong-Min Hong, Andrew S. Jacobs, Moon K. Lee, Daniel C. Ramirez and Wolf from Cabot House; Brian A. Lanman, Guy Maytal and Duy T. Nguyen from Currier House; Kathryn E. Shea from Dudley House; Alison V. Davis from Dunster House; Roy Astrachan, Ross D. Blank, Christopher P. Herzog, Luba A. Kobrinsky, James A. Parson and Nicholas R. Szumski from Eliot House; Katherine...
...rush of scientific optimism that followed the polio vaccine and the first moon walk, Richard Nixon declared war on America's second biggest killer: cancer. Twenty-five years and $35 billion later, the news from the cancer front is good...