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...music was indeed heavenly. Particularly striking were Michael Schade as Tamino and Hei-Kyung Hong as Pamina. Both possess remarkably clear and lyrical voices whose timbres match seamlessly. Their seemingly identical musical conceptions created the well-blended texture and flexible phrasing that are so crucial for the underlying drama, in which Tamino and Pamina overcome the ordeals of initiation into Sarastro’s order and progress towards enlightenment only through cooperation and mutual support. Their journey was admirably accompanied by the Met orchestra, which played with impeccable precision and clarity...
Harvard's powerplay was running at 24.6 percent heading into Sunday, and Duluth possess the third worst penalty kill in the country behind only Yale and Maine...
...secure permission from their work unit. The work unit chief declined to grant them leave without the permission of the local police. When they went to the Wuhan Ministry of Public Security to ask for an explanation, a political protection officer curtly told them they were classified as "persons possessing state secrets likely to impair national security or cause great harm to the national interest" and therefore ineligible to go abroad. Shocked and bewildered as to "how two ordinary workers could possess state secrets," Meng asked to see the charges against her in writing. The police denied her request...
...have marveled at the two towering Buddha statues of Bamiyan, in central Afghanistan. Hewn from sandstone cliffs, these two giants, 53 m and 35 m high, are a fusion of Classical Greek and Indian art that flourished along the ancient Silk Road. Despite their massive size, the standing Buddhas possess an ethereal lightness. It's as if they managed to levitate above a millennium of warfare and calamity that has plagued Afghanistan, at least until the fiercely Islamic Taliban rulers fixed the Buddhas in their gun-sights...
...interesting to consider how these issues played out in the larger story of the Harlem Renaissance. The questions raised by the book, no doubt, relate to a larger project. It is a testament to Bernard's accomplishment that this collection of letters, spread out over nearly 40 years, possess distinct and coherent themes and can support a plausible and important argument for a reconsideration of literary history...