Word: paean
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...fact, the title essay. In Scarch of Our Mothers' Gardens, is arguably the best work of the collection. It is a lyrical paean to maternal ancestry, a tribute to the Black women who suffered and died and were enslaved in this country and elsewhere, women who stifled their formidable creativity in order not to lose their minds. In it, she captures the mystical, earthy qualities of mother-hood and spiritual creativity, two of her central themes. She recounts the poet Jean Toomer's discovery in the South of the 1920's women: whose spirituality was so intense, so deep...
...despite these failings, the overall energy, creativity, and sheer entertainment makes Cats a bravura production well worth seeing. From the hauntingly beautiful melody of "Memory" to the energetic "Mr. Mistoffelees" to the final song, a glorifying paean to felines Cats is a celebration of cats--and maybe after all it isn't purely fantasy. Look at Tabby the next time he basks on the sunlit windowsill, unbothered by the mundane humanity around him, lost in a secret world of his own, end you may begin to have second thoughts...
...reading the Sunday Times, or Saturday night prowling various bars, putting up with parents and their querulous worries about their kids in the Big City. And there are the songs themselves, with their laments about loneliness, their fantasies ranging from the crude to the delicately romantic, and their general paean to a life of high-powered lack of direction. "Let me tell you one thin," one audience member was overheard muttering on the way out, "that's just not the way it is in the suburbs of Detroit...
...file in time for the January issue, expects to sit down at the typewriter this week. This fills him with fear and loathing. What sort of article he will turn out is anybody's guess. But one thing is certain: the military should not expect an Ernie Pyle paean to its bravery in the field. "A bunch of newsmen with baseball bats," Thompson says, "could have taken this island...
...Houseparty" focuses exclusively on Black characters, yet Hudlin intends it as neither a statement of Black separatism nor a paean to racial pride. "I hate anything that smacks of moralizing," he says. "This is a film about Black youth culture, and when you're dealing with kids, there can't be any compromises. Kids see right through that stuff. I wanted this film to be honest. It's fiction: it's a story, but it's accurate...