Word: oneself
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...helm with a hoary smile on his face impossible to read except by other ninnies in their 40s and 50s, who, like him, through no fault of their own, have been handed control of the world. Control of the world? What a snap! It's control of oneself that takes real skill. Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas, New Year's. An entire stage of life compressed into a symbolic five-week journey of light and dark, crying and singing. And here comes Captain Midlife, dopey as the day is short, hollering orders into the gale, hailing other captains as they pass...
...believe that my students realized this aim by having to take responsibility for their own part in the entire process invovlved in something as elementary as feeding oneself. It was my wish that the students could then go on to convert the negative aspect of this experience into a positive and productive understanding of the whole. They would then be able to reinforce this positive understanding with a sense of wonder and imagination when creating a statement in sculpture. Ritsuko Taho Visual and Environmental Studies Department
...tested by its screams. One has the choice to hear or not to hear; to detect location or not to detect location; to discover cause; to help or not to help. Along the many lines of choice, excuses and mistakes are possible, even reasonable. One is left with oneself and the screams, like two opponents. The Kitty Genovese case of 1964 keeps coming back, in which a young woman in Queens screamed for help, and everybody heard, and nobody helped. What were we to do? Edvard Munch's famous painting of The Cry keeps coming back, equally scary and bewildering...
...story with elements of samurai adventure and Sergio Leone western, and then has the actors play it straight. Amazingly, it's a satire that involves the audience in the action as much as the characters themselves. When the noodle senseis test her progress after a few weeks, one finds oneself as tense and nervous as if one were watching a shoot...
...willing to tolerate ambiguity almost indefinitely. "Another way to say it is idiocy or a total lack of concern for oneself. Things work out, and if they don't you can always get a job at a restaurant...