Word: poeticisms
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...years, the Waifish Bolshoi Ballet prima ballerina Natalia Bessmertnova entranced critics with her quick, intense energy and poetic style in classic and contemporary productions, including Giselle, Swan Lake and Spartacus. In 1995 she took on another role when her husband, Bolshoi artistic director Yuri Grigorovich, quit amid a dispute with management over plans for his replacement. Bessmertnova and her fellow dancers refused to perform for a night. The historic strike caused the company's first cancellation in more than two centuries. She was 66 and reportedly had kidney trouble...
...which starts as a soulful rap about a lack of socioeconomic progress in the African American community, ends with Howard Beale’s words from the 1976 movie “Network.” His speech is first reversed to produce a sort of poetic rhythm set against sped-up, mixed-down audio effects that convey a distinctly weird feel. Beale’s unaltered vocalizations ring out: “All I know is you got to get mad. I’m a human being, dammit! My life has value!” Harmonically...
...listening to the commencement speech is the single most important moment in a Harvard student’s life. Last year’s speaker, Bill Gates, waxed so poetic about “appalling disparities of health, and wealth, and opportunity,” that hundreds of graduates quit the lucrative jobs awaiting them on Wall Street and set off to change the world. When U.S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall announced his eponymous plan for rebuilding Europe after the Second World War in his 1947 commencement address, there were almost certainly dozens of graduates still awake...
...Michael Grendel: Slain by Beowulf in Sanders Theater, an act of epic poetic Justice...
...writes that it will be conscious, but compared with being bodily alive, it will be like being asleep. The Wisdom of Solomon, a Jewish text from about the same time as Jesus, says "the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God," and that seems like a poetic way to put the Christian understanding, as well...