Word: torches
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...every activity is quite so earnest. In the middle of one night each summer, campers will be roused and taken to an unlighted soccer field, where they will be instructed to wait for the sound of a horn. When it sounds, a torch-bearing stranger, dressed in medieval garb, will arrive to blindfold the young Schuler and lead them to the Marchenwald (fairy-tale forest), where they will be treated to a medieval German play...
Ironically, what sets Echo House apart from the hyperrealities of the usual Washington novel is precisely its air of ineffability. Beneath his bulletproof exterior Axel has a vulnerable emotional life. Why exactly does he carry a 50-year torch for a member of the French Resistance who gave him only unfriendly glances during the war? Were her youthful beauty and clarity of purpose an unshakable reminder of his own murky career as a political mechanic...
...Sunset, draw deftly on the upbeat music of South Africa's townships. But the best song is Daulne's seductive cover of Phoebe Snow's Poetry Man; that song, like much of this fine CD, has the liquid groove of hip-hop and the broken heart of a great torch song...
Snipe added that the African Meeting House plans to restore its original pews next year. A fire begun by a propane torch had destroyed the original pews in the 1980's, he explained...
...oppose cloning and other forms of genetic engineering should take into account that nature and evolution have permitted humans to reach the level of intelligence necessary for genetic engineering. Is it not natural, then, for us to explore its potential? Perhaps it is time for nature to pass the torch of biological control to the hands of humans. BRIAN HOUSE, age 17 Denver...