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The ceremony--which included addresses, recitation of a Bicentennial Ode, and presentation of honary degrees and commemorative medals--brought to a close a four-day celebration that has drawn doctors and scientists from around the world.
Fire metaphors are ghoulishly appropriate for a man who, in June 1980, was lucky to be alive with third-degree burns over much of his body. Even so, fire images would be in consummate bad taste if 1) Pryor thought there were such a thing as bad taste, and 2...
Bing also notes that "information is kind of stuffed into you," citing that PRC's regular "recitation contests," during which students have to recite long passages by memory. However, the independence here has made him feel occasionally "too disorganized" and "helpless." "I'm way ahead in one course, but far...
Not so, of course, for America's foremost contemporary reporter-turned-essayist, Joan Didion. When Didion undertakes a character profile -- her piece on James Pike, the Episcopalian Bishop of California, for example -- she doesn't begin with the subject, his family, philosophy, or even a recitation of his favorite food...
Embodied on stage, this selective vision of pastoral proves hilarious. Take Belgrader's constant play on the so-called "pathetic fallacy"--the idea that nature responds to human emotion. Five young girls clad in fake-looking foliage represent the whispering forest, and their carefully timed reactions provide some of the...