Word: presention
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...style heart with an angel hovering near one lobe, is too small to be statistically meaningful, but the results--the outcomes of those prayed over were 50% to 100% better than those of a control group--were sufficient, as Krucoff puts it, to be "intriguing." He and Crater will present them at an American Heart Association meeting in November, and the duo hope to begin a full-bore, statistically powerful study next year. Meanwhile, for patients who want them, they see no reason why the intercessions should cease...
...second act sets were equally beautiful, adding to the gloom and sorrow of the graveyard and representing both the betrayal of the past and the perpetual sadness of the present and future. The backdrop of dead and broken trees matched the single wooden cross marking Giselle's grave at the front of the stage. The simplicity of the sets complemented the pure white long tutus of the wilis and the bouquet of white lilies that Albrecht let fall one by one over Giselle's grave...
This new translation of The Trial is the first to appear in sixty years. Unlike the translators of the previous edition, Edwin and Willa Muir, who tried to clarify the text through interpretation, the new translator, Breon Mitchell, makes an effort to preserve the hidden meanings present in the original. To this end he painstakingly reviews Kafka's diction and syntax, searching for connotations not readily apparent in the German...
...summer series, UHS recruited local experts to present the lectures, which covered Shiatsu, Massage Therapy, Alexander Technique, Acupuncture, Reflexology and QiGong...
Still, the tendency to de-intellectualizepoetry, which made his afternoon lecture soalternately refreshing and frustrating, wasdetectable in the platitudes, the easy jokes andthe strings of parallel declarations whichinterfered in many poems with the directperception, the simple truths honed fromcomplexity, so present in "Straits." Koch seemsvery much to want not only his poetry, butpoetry to be accessible to everyone, andalmost immediately accessible: in reducing his ownwork to homilies and jokes, Koch showed the sametemperament that allowed him to turn the Stevenspoem into a cartoon, sacrificing what hederisively referred to as "meaning" for what heseemed to consider counter to it, "pleasure...