Word: sage
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...advice to help ease the Spee boys through this difficult and confusing period of transition. Many online tips seem sufficiently vague to apply to just about any life crisis, even the somewhat rare human tragedy of being displaced from your elite, all-male social organization. No less a modern sage than www.Ivillage.com, in its “7 Post-Breakup Pick-Me-Up Tips,” reminds the Spee boys that it’s OK to cry and, above all else, to avoid doing something on the rebound that they might one day regret (i.e. don?...
...Times of London correspondent in Saigon at the time the French are retreating from Vietnam and the Americans are coming in, full of bravado and a species of idealism. Fowler, with his Vietnamese mistress (Do Thi Hai Yen) and his fondness for opium, is the resident sage and cynic. The subversive tactics of an American friend (Brendan Fraser) stir him to make a fatal decision for reasons both noble and venal...
Though the crepe of impending war hangs over Towers, the film is vivid with melodrama, conflicted love and potent new characters. Treebeard, a tall sylvan sage reluctantly drawn into the conflict, has the stately, smiling gravity of George Bernard Shaw. And the digitized Gollum is wonderfully complex, a damned creature slipping in and out of his own private hell. At first a whiny Jar Jar Binks as he might be played by Klaus Kinski, Gollum soon reveals a complex pathos and a facility of expression no human actor could match. He is another example of Jackson's pursuit...
Still, Newman, 77, projects a relaxed authority that downplays the drama's sentimentality and stiffens its philosophical spine. His now wispy body and white hair make him more grandfatherly than ever. But he comes across less as a sage or authorial god than as a matter-of-fact neighbor who just happens to have stuck around long enough to tell the story. It's in keeping with Wilder's paean to those mundane details of life that we take for granted--and that pass away all too fleetingly. "You know how it is," Newman says, leaping at the line...
...passion for his religion even landed him a position on the board of Harvard’s Secular Society. “I wanted the title of chaplain, but they already had a chaplain. So they gave me the title of resident sage,” he says. Halvorson also counts among his accomplishments his role in helping the Harvard Republican Club become the most active campus Republican organization in the country...