Word: postlapsarian
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...values part of the Republican production was, as they kept saying of Bill Clinton, relentlessly slick. It depended on a sort of grieving, part- nostalgic assumption that Americans live amid unwholesome aliens (homosexual teachers who want to proselytize, condom distributors, abortion-mongers, she-devil lawyers named Hillary) in a postlapsarian age, after some immense moral fall (whenever or whatever that may have been), something that has gone hugely wrong in American life...
STAGING THIS hyper-intellectual verse play is a risky venture as best in these postlapsarian times. Awash in his hard-won Catholic faith, T.S. Eliot spun Murder in the Cathedral in 1935 out of the stuff of the ritual he was preoccupied with and the metaphysical poetry he esteemed. Since then, its readers have appreciated its poetic merit, but its audiences have sat uncomfortably as paradox and conceit flew by, just out of their grasp...
...solo, both the work of Dennis Henderson '79, who arranged the song and performs the solo. Henderson has graduated, but Kuumba will not miss him, not because he isn't talented (he obviously is), but because Kuumba seems to be one of the few campus organizations flourishing in these postlapsarian times...
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