Word: spiritism
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...bores through the mist that the rest of the cast seems too nauseous or too stupid to see through. The Part About Archimboldi is the novel’s most ambitious section, and it’s most beautiful. The novelist is Arturo Belano’s kindred spirit, a secret brother who seems to absorb the whole weight of his tragic experience—from his time in the Werhmacht on the apocalyptic Eastern Front to his haunting stay in a rest home for the demented—with a consciousness that remains totally opaque but for his books...
...says you have to wait until Valentine’s Day for love? While the winter festivities tend to spread merriness all around, it might be a bit more difficult to get into the holiday spirit if you’re single. So if you’re itching to shake off the winter blues, cozy up to my picks for the best places to find your hipster soul mate. Looks like finding love at Harvard doesn’t have to be a Christmas miracle after...
...their small but burgeoning scene - there are only a handful of Muslim punk bands in the U.S. and Canada - rebellion is an act of piety. Strident as their sound can seem, it is, in spirit, in harmony with other rebellious voices that are rising amid the breakdown of authority in the Islamic world. Whether they're the voices of Muslim feminists going back to read the Koran and the Hadith as documents of liberation, gay Muslims working out a theology that embraces homosexuality or even the millions of Muslim youths trusting Islamic chat rooms - which one British Muslim leader...
...Knight, punk's rebellious ethos echoes the rebellious spirit of Islam, which, when it began in 7th century Arabia, directly challenged everything from the Meccan economic power structures of the day to the prevailing tribal views on women. Knight's novel opens with a poem, which Poursalehi set to music and which has become an anthem of sorts for the scene: "Muhammed was a punk rocker/ You know he tore s___ up/ Muhammed was a punk rocker/ Rancid sticker on his pickup truck." For Knight, now a graduate student in Islamic studies at Harvard University, the richness and elasticity...
...spirit is more impressive than the substance,” said Patrick W. Spence ’12. “These things tend to be a little peevish and ineffective...