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...Beethoven slowly lost his hearing, his thoughts turned to suicide. He wrote a surprisingly frank testament in 1802, confessing his frustration at hearing nothing but silence. Tempted to take his own life, Beethoven wrote, “it was only my art that held me back.” Remarkably, his flood of new compositions...
...most devastated settings, miracles can happen. As workers pounded a hole in a collapsed house last week, the tiny figure of Zarabe crawled out. Her shiny red dress and spiky hair were caked with dust, and she was scared and thirsty. But otherwise Zarabe was unhurt--a living, breathing testament to the human will to survive...
Actually performed once in 2001 at the Culture Project in New York City, the opera is less a literary experiment than a testament to the profundity of Carson’s work. Dark, deep, and clear, the opera and the essay both manipulate their dramatis personae into the same act of destabilization that Carson observes in the characters of Virginia Woolf: “the narrative voice shifts from ‘we’ to ‘one’ to ‘you’ to ‘they?...
...promote spiritual well-being is through the writing of an ethical will. An ordinary will or last testament mainly concerns the disposition of your material possessions at death. An ethical will has to do with nonmaterial gifts: the values and life lessons that you wish to leave to others...
...Yale was sailing their best three skippers at this event, so for us to finish within six points of them with really our top two skippers at Yale was an accomplishment and a testament to the depth of our team,” co-captain Sloan Devlin said...