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...hallmarks of the performance was Monk's uncanny ability to infuse the everyday with a simple, unadorned spirituality. The Service, according to Monk's literature, "celebrates the universal quest for spirituality" with a mixture of seemingly simple choral chants, organ music, processionals and poems that span both history and religion. With the combination of these differing elements Monk successfully avoids the always enticing "universal answer for spirituality" so popular with televangalists and new-age gurus, instead creating a physical as well as psychological space for reflection...
...mere poem will bring back childhood or a dead friend; such knowledge forces it back, time and again, on the only trick it knows: namely, constructing a gorgeous verbal contraption. The mystery is how such a contraption could ever work: but it does work, at least for the brief span of its operations, during (and just after) which "all losses are restored and sorrows...
...mere poem will bring back childhood or a dead friend; such knowledge forces it back, time and again, on the only trick it knows: namely, constructing a gorgeous verbal contraption. The mystery is how such a contraption could ever work: but it does work, at least for the brief span of its operations, during (and just after) which "all losses are restored and sorrows...
...borrow a phrase from a friend, "the Undergraduate Council is atrocious." Or rather, it has proved its atrociousness in the recent Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) debacle, a debacle that, sadly, the campus has forgotten in its two-second attention span, a debacle that Dean Lewis, thankfully, recently quashed by indicating that ROTC's return to campus is nowhere near imminent. Nevertheless, I would like to ask two questions regarding the council's refusal Sunday night to reconsider the rescission of the ROTC Task Force Authorization Bill. 1) Whom does the council represent anyway? And 2) Since when did "compromise...
...winners and losers at any film festival. Some may find the festival to be stereotypically feminine--its films focused more on personal relationships than anything else. The ultra-impatient and testosteronal would die, given this smorgasbord of subdued, thoughtful films. For those of you with a longer attention span and a stalker's instinct to observe and analyze women's lives and relate them to your own experiences, this film festival is for you--tune in next year...