Word: nirvanas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With The Importance of Being Ear nest Wilde raises frivolity to high fash ion, attains a comic nirvana through sheer nonsense. Apart from a wonderfully sly-tongued cast, which this production has, the play demands a director who can crack the combination of its elegant wit and satirical wisdom with the silky fingers of a safe robber. Stephen Porter is just that sort of director, and the stamp of his assurance is his total trust in the playwright...
Sophomore year, I sat in the top row and deftly employed a water-pistol during particularly tedious moments. For my junior year tests, I dropped marbles down the stairs--on the right track, but still not distracting enough. Last January, I achieved comic nirvana; I brought a slinky to finals, and started it off on the top stair, ten minutes before the three hours were up, and patiently watched those coils undulate down the steps, taking a good five minutes to get to the ground floor. I am glad that I am a senior--how could I top that, next...
...last three miles. Muscles I never knew I had started to hurt. Boston College, Commonwealth Ave, and Beacon St. blurred into abstraction, I sure wasn't admiring the sights or the crowds. I looked only for the proffered drink... the raised garden hose... water sprayed on my face. What Nirvana...
...traditional jazz. Tuning tunes like Miles Davis' So What. Also playing some Sonny Rollins. That enough? They'll continue with original composition and some "straight-ahead" jazz. Whatever the latter may be, you can be fairly sure it won't be narrow or lead directly to Nirvana--but check them out anyway...
...conch shells and cymbals sounded, the first flower-decked palanquin, bearing the leader of Hinduism's Maha Nirvana sect, moved toward the river bank near Allahabad where the Yamuna River meets the Ganges. Alongside marched a troop of elephants, trumpeting, their heaving bodies covered with garlands and painted symbols. Then through the police cordon flowed thousands of pilgrims from nine other ancient Hindu sects. Among them came a procession of Naga sadhus, celibate holy men who follow Shiva, the god of the forces of both life and destruction. They were all naked, except for a coating of sand...