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...giant wall lined with book-filled cubes, measuring 21 feet by 10 feet, is the loft’s focal point. Installed mostly by Pinker himself, the cubes hold the couple’s book collection that numbers in the thousands. Cubes seem to be a theme in Pinker’s lifestyle...
...many different stories came to a head this week! FlyBy loved all the confrontations. We enjoyed the “empowerment” theme, too, but we’re unsure about the show’s handling of minorities. This has been a problem from the beginning: Kurt’s coming out, for example, was handled with surprising respect. But are we to read Mr. Ryerson as a villainous pedophile or as an offensive gay stereotype? “Throwdown” addresses these issues with mixed results, succeeding in being considerate yet funny, but failing to deepen...
...Dylan’s music was a recurring theme at the memorial service. Cabot House tutor Richard Johnston talked about Shaker’s love for Dylan and introduced a performance of the song “Farewell Angelina” by a small group of Shaker’s friends. Dylan’s song “I Want You” was played as attendees flooded into Memorial Church before the service and Shaker’s friends also led a group rendition of “Rock Me Mama” toward...
...time of the Revolution, the theme of beleaguered people standing up to a superpower had become the go-to narrative of American identity. The two best-selling books of 1776 featured Moses. Thomas Paine, in Common Sense, called King George the "hardened, sullen tempered pharaoh." Samuel Sherwood, in The Church's Flight into the Wilderness, said God would deliver the colonies from Egyptian bondage. The Moses image was so pervasive that on July 4, after signing the Declaration of Independence, the Congress asked Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin and John Adams to propose a seal for the United States. Their recommendation...
...Cecil B. DeMille who turned Moses into a symbol of American power in the Cold War. The 1956 epic The Ten Commandments, which in its inflation-adjusted total ranks as the fifth highest grossing movie of all time, opened with DeMille appearing onscreen. "The theme of this picture is whether men ought to be ruled by God's law or whether they are to be ruled by the whims of a dictator," he said. "The same battle continues throughout the world today." To drive home his point, DeMille cast mostly Americans as Israelites and Europeans as Egyptians...