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...story continues with Queen Orontea swearing to stay faithful to her own freedom and never fall in love, but she soon finds this promise hard to keep. She becomes torn between the statements of her court advisor (Jesse Billett '01) who pushes her to follow reason, not passion, and the irresistible charm of her court painter (Jason McAdams, a New England Conservatory second-year Master's candidate), who is desired by every woman he encounters. Once this passion gets out of control, there is little that reason can do to reduce the chaos that ensues...
...bloody statue of Jesus carried onto a bustling streetcar ("Illusion Travels by Streetcar," 1953), and a man viewing a priest's ritual cleaning and kissing of altar boys' feet leading to sexually charged stares between the man and the woman who will become his beloved ("El/This Strange Passion," 1952). The coup de grace is delivered in "Archibaldo de la Cruz" when our hero, an aspiring (but terribly clumsy) serial killer, frightens a nun so badly she plunges down a deep elevator shaft - producing, in most cinemas, a hearty round of laughter...
Specific criteria for choosing Academy members have not yet been determined, but the overriding factor will be commitment to teaching--those professors who have "a passion for teaching, a willingness to commit time to teaching and a reputation as being an innovator or role model educator," Lowenstein said...
...other passion has been Christian education in the Far East. An invitation to get involved with the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia from a sister of Time Magazine founder Henry Luce led within two years to the presidency of its Board of Trustees. In his years with the foundation he took a number of trips to Asia and served as a member of the Foundation's executive committee and chair of its Development Committee...
...seen better days, especially with talk of 500 cable channels--and that was before the Internet, with its myriad possibilities, exploded onto the scene. Yet Walter and his staff have proved the pundits wrong, making TIME a lively, incisive and must-read magazine. He brought to the job his passion for politics, technology, business and social issues. He also brought a new generation of young writers to TIME and made it a fun and exciting place to work. As a result, today's TIME is a crisply written, deeply reported magazine that captures the magic and fascination of a wide...