Word: raptness
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...Warren, the author of The Purpose Driven Life. Controversy over the anti-gay bill, however, led Warren, who has a large East African network of connections, to sever ties with Ssempa. Ssempa, who has told reporters of a secret group of witches who live beneath Lake Victoria, has a rapt student following and has organized antihomosexuality parades and burned condoms. Warren, who hews to evangelical Christianity's denunciation of homosexual behavior, was involved in controversy when gay activists and other critics condemned Barack Obama's decision to have him deliver the invocation at the presidential Inauguration in January...
...intimate with words as a carpenter with wood. It is the most immediate pleasure of a reading, the way the sound of an instrument pleases more immediately than the composer’s melody. I remember, when Simon Armitage read in Houghton Library earlier this semester, sitting in rapt attention to a repetitive poem (that I would have probably rushed through had I been reading it) simply by virtue the sound of his voice. I ended up savoring the repetition because he recited it so beautifully. Seamus Heaney’s reading voice seems to be composed of the sounds...
...grunt work, the Crimson marched 67 yards down field and planted the ball in the Crusader’s endzone—bringing the score to 20-13 as Holy Cross fans with shirts declaring “God is on our side” looked on in rapt dismay. After Holy Cross went three-and-out, Harvard’s squad looked ready to cross the pylons for a second time in the quarter as it assembled a 49-yard drive. When the offensive machine stalled out on the Holy Cross 15, Harvard coach Tim Murphy passed...
...Twitter and in the blogosphere, where the furor in Iran is unfolding before a rapt global public, hundreds have ridiculed the Iranian President for leaving the country at this moment. Some have likened his departure to a flight 30 years ago, when, heeding the bells of history, the country's teary-eyed Shah strode onto a plane bound for Egypt, never to return as Islamic revolution swept the monarchy aside. But Ahmadinejad will be back, buoyed, if not by a democratic mandate, then by the assurances of a few close friends...
...that's the fun of spinning an origins story; the writers can improvise the itinerary as long as they reach a plausible destination - one that folds into the beginning of the first show of the first season of the original Star Trek. From the rapt response of Trekkies, critics and this weekend's customers, that journey could be long and prosperous...