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...races through the stars and toward heaven, as "the pith, which, lest our bodies slack, / Strings fast the little bones of neck, and back; / So by the soul doth death string heaven and earth." Someone who hadn't seen a body dissected might have been able to draw the parallel, but probably not with the razor-sharp language that makes Donne one of the greats. Von Hagens, who performed his autopsy under a copy of Rembrandt's Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicholas Tulp, is clearly conscious of this artistic heritage. That's why it was so disappointing to discover that...
...parallel shift in the culture suggests that Clinton-era values are no longer America's. Though a baby boomer, Bush rejects the instant-gratification ethic embraced by Clinton, the nation's first baby boomer President. Bush went from party-hearty frat boy to hard liquor--drinking Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (until he shaped up in his 40s) without stopping to dabble in the counterculture or go anywhere in a VW bus. He often laments not being one of the Greatest Generation he so admires (although he was no more up front about not going to Vietnam than...
...there’s one maxim of presidential hopeful Sarokhan’s that has no parallel on the former president’s list. Washington’s list reminds him to “Let your Recreations be Manfull not Sinfull.” Sarokhan’s says: “Keep a list of contacts...
Harvard’s Athena Theater Company will diverge from one theatrical precedent to reclaim another when it performs Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice with an all-female cast at the Agassiz Theater this weekend. The production of Shakespeare’s notoriously perplexing play will parallel a 1909 version by the Idler Club, nascent Radcliffe’s first student organization...
...society decided that his religion invalidated his centuries-old tie to Egypt. Abdel Wahed’s life is powerful proof of the destructiveness of hate, and the impact of his story lies in the 900,000 times it was repeated. There are nearly one million people whose histories parallel Wahed’s, who experienced the same fear for their lives, and who underwent the same uprooting from their countries. When we heard him speak, we heard more than just his voice—we heard the voice of the last generation of Arab Jews...