Word: obsessionals
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The aspects we have chosen as our themes are the impulse to create meanings for the (at first) unfamiliar panoply of American nature; the "American grain" of direct, pragmatic vision and craftsmanship; the urge to visionary expression of spiritual experience; the wish to implant grandeur in society; the move into...
The regular program concluded with a gorgeous performance of Schumann's Op. 39 Liederkreis, a cycle from 1840, the legendary "year of song." Working with texts by the poet and novelist Joseph Eichendorff, Schumann dashed off these twelve songs in a few weeks in May--have you finished your term...
"I would stress the mental aspect of knowing that you can do it," Hurley says. "In the last couple miles, finishing becomes an obsession."
"I hate that term 'in the closet,'" says Ellen DeGeneres, the aforementioned sitcom star whose all-pants wardrobe and sometimes awkward chemistry with male ingenues was provoking curiosity from fans and reporters long before her sexuality became a minor national obsession. "Until recently I hated the word lesbian too," she...
Ironically, this ongoing obsession with TV's responsibility comes at a time when the networks' hold on the viewing public continues to erode--just this past February the networks' share of the total viewing audience dropped 4.6% from a year ago, continuing a two-decades-long decline. But whatever Ellen...