Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there--funk, jazz, roots rock, old-school rap, nonsense lyrics--but suddenly they sounded compatible, credible and organic. The self-proclaimed loser was suddenly "the enchanting wizard of rhythm," devouring and reinventing 50 years of American pop music in one democratic bite. If Beck had lassoed the presumed spirit of Generation-X cool with his way-ward loser persona, the massive sound collage of Odelay put Beck even a step ahead of the zeitgeist. This was the sound of the future--just like the past, only hipper, more eclectic and with even more banjos...
...where he would personally unveil his two most recent works --Opened Ground (Poems 1966-1996) and a translation-in-its-final-stages of Beowulf. The former work is a comprehensive anthology containing a large selection of poems from Heaney's previous books (up to and including 1996's The Spirit Level), several excerpts from his translation work and his Nobel acceptance speech on "Crediting Poetry." The latter promises to be an amazing and innovative translation of the oft-interpreted Anglo-Saxon epic, due to be published over a thousand years after the epic's initial creation...
While in town, Heaney also fulfilled his duties as Ralph Waldo Emerson Visiting Poet by giving several lectures about, and readings from, Opened Ground and Beowulf. Heaney is known for his humorous, warm and gentle spirit, a spirit than infuses even the most violent and political of his poems, and also for his tendency to avoid the "celebrity poet" spotlight. (In fact, he was in the Greek islands when the Nobel Prize announcement was made.) This came across in Heaney's three lectures and three "talking shop" sessions (informal talk-cum-question-and-answer sessions), in which the always-congenial...
Earlier this century, the residents, masters and tutors worked together to give each house a distinct character. While the basic House structure persists, and each House maintains some spirit and sense of uniqueness, there has been a gradual temperament of the vigor President A. Lawrence Lowell, class of 1877, envisioned...
...Harvard, it all too often seems, masters aren't so interested in making students' lives better. If they were, they might see that restricted keycard access isn't engendering community spirit or protecting us; it is only wasting students' time, making us feel less safe and underhandedly weakening a sense of College-wide unity in the process...