Word: mortalism
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...sense of awed outrage. (?Was it all a dream?? asks ?Fahrenheit.? ?How did this happen?? demands ?Bush?s Brain.?) They attempted to demolish the opposition?s arguments and actions with news clips and expert rebuttal. To prove this isn?t just partisan nit-picking but a matter of mortal consequence, the anti-Bush films went simultaneously for the heart and the throat, depicting the casualties of war: interviews with the families of U.S. soldiers - or, in the case of ?Control Room,? Iraqi civilians - killed during the invasion and occupation. (Taking a cue from the enemy, ?Fahrenhype? also had interviews with...
Wings of Desire, a predominantly German-language film about the angels who watch over Berlin and the one who eventually decides to become mortal after falling in love with a trapeze artist, was the original City of Angels. It’s screened here with Swedish director Ingmar Bergman’s clever comedy Love Me. Call the Harvard Film Archive at (617) 495-4700 for admission details. Wings of Desire at 7 p.m. and A Lesson in Love at 9:15 p.m. The Carpenter Center Main Auditorium...
Victims of an illegal war of choice, helpless civilians are ripped asunder by showers of bombs and bullets, while others are driven from their homes only to suffer the mortal pangs of disease and malnutrition. State-sponsored militias and killing squads swoop down into villages and ravage them, going from street to street and house to house, propelled by an extraordinary sense of revenge and right. Places of worship are rehabilitated into killing fields, where the wounded and infirm are annihilated in the presence of God. These invaders, some indigenous and some from far-off lands, do not fight...
...Christians care so much about the life of the unborn, then they should also care about the lives of people who are among the living right now, but who could be killed any minute in Iraq by an insurgent, in their homes by gun violence, or simply by a mortal lack of sufficient health care. I believe abortion is wrong, too, but there are so many other issues which Bush supports that are wrong for the same reason...
...that was July, and October has a decidedly different flavor. Graduation took six rowers from the first varsity and six from the second. The first varsity coxswain graduated as well, and Harvard’s invincible heavyweights began to look increasingly more mortal without competing in a single race...