Word: tranquillity
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...tranquil early morning silence is broken when one minute later my slumber is interrupted by a screaming man banging on a trash can as if Armageddon were close approaching...
Finally, the task of remembering Vietnam has fallen to a Vietnamese writer- director. The Saigon on view in Tran Anh Hung's The Scent of Green Papaya, recently nominated for a foreign-language-film Oscar, is serene, shimmering and stripped of melodrama. Set in two ominously tranquil periods -- 1951, a few years before the French collapse at Dien Bien Phu, and 1961, just before the U.S. buildup -- Green Papaya is seemingly apolitical. Yet in Tran's family drama one can see a society torn between East and West, passivity and passion, duty and will, ancient rites and modern desires...
Similarities to Shostakovich also spread into the third movement, where a two-note third was the subject of extensive development. Isolated events in the winds, often based upon a motif of rolling scales up and down, set off punctuation in the brass and strings. At the tranquil end of the movement, the drumbeat returned with a soft flute trill. The wind soloists were all more than competent...
...Yellow Wallpaper has been transformed into an interesting yet obsolete medical case on display at the Loeb Ex this weekend. Director Sarah T. Stewart invites us to attend her "Tranquil Grove Series of Visiting Lecturers on depression." This particular session takes us into the 19th century to witness how Dr. Silas Weir Mitchell's "rest" treatment drives an independent-minded woman insane. But you better get your tickets now, seminars such as these fill up quickly...
Serenity, for instance. An idea easily entertained by Harvard folk, and then dropped when midterms arrive (last week being the most recent, painful example). But the monks and the residents of Dai Bosatsu live in a relatively serene state, buoyed by tranquil post-meditation moments and long yoga stretches...